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.

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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.

When we hear a funny joke, there are lots of different things that happen in the brain and body. My friend Paul Bolls, the director of the Media Mind Lab at Washington State University, told me ...

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 ...

From trouble sleeping to wimpy muscles, living on board the International Space Station really does a number on the human body. Get to know how your body could react to life in orbit with these 6 ...

The human body is something we all know very well — we each have a body through which we encounter the world. Yet each person’s experience is unique. These differences and shared experiences ...