Anatomy

From Galileo’s middle finger to Chopin’s heart, these body parts have long outlived the rest of their owners.

Visit Turin to see the organ—and learn how to preserve your own.

Scientists are studying its bowel movements, its dazzling sparkle, and its relation to us.

In her new book, Elsa Richardson explores how the gut has been viewed across history.

Unique adaptations allow the ambush predator to thrive in an environment that would kill most other organisms.

Centuries after the philosopher’s death, lingering controversy over his remains highlights a macabre practice of profiting from the dead.

In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted a human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are stretched out in a glass case.

The impact of 14 months at the edge of the world.

A fiercely unusual musical style from a fiercely independent island.

The first reconstruction from a flesh-and-blood mammoth looked more like a pig.

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