From the ugly to the awesome to the downright weird, Hollywood has brought a whole cosmos' worth of alien characters to the silver screen — but what do we know about the human beings who portrayed ...

An exhibit at New York's Museum of the Moving Image explores how medical imaging technologies like CT scans and X-rays have reshaped our view of the body — and ourselves.

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

Immigration crackdowns in Minnesota are causing fearful immigrant families to avoid hospitals, leading to canceled surgeries and missed medical care.

UK surgeons remotely removed a man’s prostate cancer from 1,500 miles away in the country’s first successful robot-assisted telesurgery.

Cosmetic surgery is booming in the US, with patients shelling out thousands of dollars for liposuction, Brazilian butt lifts and other body-contouring procedures. But the promise of the perfect look ...

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Doctors and nurses have quietly operated informal, underground medical networks, dodging detection to care for patients at ...