Everyone at some point has had the misfortune of hitting their elbow just so and sending an electric shock up their arm, but what's really going on?

Your body is stranger, funnier, and far more disgusting than you ever imagined. From fart speeds clocking 7 mph to spiders living in your pores, today’s episode of The Infographics Show dives into 100 ...

Axilla: This part of the human body rhymes with gorilla and can smell just as bad. ... You might know about the humerus bone, but other body parts have funny names, too.

For example, in the 1890s, anatomist Robert Wiedersheim published a list of 86 human "vestiges," or body parts that had "lost their original physiological significance" to humans.

We're challenging you to find facts from fiction about the human body! And don't forget to preorder Wow in the World's new book, The How & Wow of the Human Body! Coming to you March 2nd, 2021.

From ‘Evil Dead 2’ and ‘Gremlins 2’ to ‘Jennifer’s Body’ and ‘Cabin in the Woods,’ these are the best horror comedies with equal amounts of scares and laughs.

Some human body parts have become useless over the past few million years. These include wisdom teeth, the tail bone, and the muscle fibers that produce goose bumps. Take a look at nine body parts ...

In the book “Cursed,” the Brooklyn-based photographer and director Charlie Engman intentionally leans into the strangeness of AI photographs, generating eerie images that feel set in the real ...

A 2020 study in the journal eLife showed that on average, the human body has dropped by 0.05 F every ten years since the 1800s, with men born in the early to mid-1990s having an average body ...

"The Ugly Stepsister" is "an ingenious revisionist body-horror version of Cinderella" that unfolds from the perspective of the fairy-tale's antagonist, said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian.In 18th ...

Jérémy Clapin’s animated film “I Lost My Body” tells the peculiar story of a severed hand that has a mind of its own and tries to find its way back to its former human host.