Field measurements of body water balance were made in the insular, herbivorous lizard Sauromalus hispidus during a comparatively dry year when succulent annual plants were not available. Lizards fed ...

Connected health tech company Withings revealed its new Body Scan smart scale, touting features that can monitor segmented body composition, nerve activity and cardiovascular health. The company said ...

Watching someone experience pain on screen activates your own brain’s touch-processing system in a highly organized, body-specific way.

The classical view of how the human brain controls voluntary movement might not tell the whole story. That map of the primary motor cortex — the motor homunculus — shows how this brain region is ...

Ultra-high-field brain scans reveal integrated maps of vision and touch, highlighting the brain's role in embodied perception ...

Spot reduction, the idea of losing fat from a specific area by exercising it, is a popular fitness myth. Scientific evidence suggests fat loss is systemic, not localized. Effective fat loss involves ...

A committee-supported project or activity that has been completed and for which output dissemination has begun. Its committee has been disbanded and closeout procedures are underway. A planning ...

Thanks to a neural interface, people can move this bionic limb naturally—just by thinking about it. When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most ...