From bioprinting to growing organs in non-human animals, doctors and scientists are looking at different ways to make organ transplants a less challenging procedure.

With warmth and grace, Beth Malone tells the deeply personal story of her dad's struggle with frontotemporal lobe dementia, and how it changed how she thinks about death (and life). A moving talk about a daughter's love -- and of letting...

If we can get it to work in humans, it will save a lot of lives.

The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is now the third approved for emergency use authorization in the United States, and it's a little different from its predecessors.

Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.

You often see people wearing surgical masks or respirators during flu season, but do they even do anything?

You might think something is so "icky" that you try avoid it, and scientists think there's a reason humans, and even some other animals, do this.

As our South Korean friends can confirm, video games can most definitely be a spectator sport. But will they ever catch on in a huge way in the good ol' U.S. of A?

Join the Cossack soldier Stepan as he tries to keep order in the battalion and help his people regain their independence. -- The year is 1676, and a treaty has officially ended hostilities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating case: diarrhea.

For decades scientists believed that monkeys could not speak human language due to an anatomical difference in vocal tracts. Today, we're not so sure that this is the limiting factor after all.

For most of us, the term "puke your guts out" isn't meant to taken literally. But for these animals, it's kind of useful.

If you’re someone who is constantly coughing up mucus, you might not actually have allergies. There’s a possibility that your organs are flipped and you don’t even know it!

It’s hard to say 'no' to puppy eyes, so here’s some information you can share with your pets next time you unwrap that chocolate bar

Road trips can be fun, but have you ever gotten sick from riding in a car? That's called motion sickness, and it turns out that it's a really common problem!

Even if you don’t notice that your bread is fuzzy before you chow down, it’s not going to kill you … probably.

A certain viral video may have brought it to your attention that blowing out candles on a birthday cake might be gross, but exactly how gross depends on who’s blowing the candles out.

On April 3rd, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started recommending that people wear a mask over their face when they go out in public. Except, for many of us, this isn’t the message we’ve gotten for the last couple of...

We've known for millennia that lead pipes could make us sick, so why are we still drinking from them?

If you get sick a few days after a flight, you might want to blame it on the recycled air in the plane- but planes aren't actually giant germ incubators.

What does it mean when a virus is airborne? It turns out it's more than just what comes out when you sneeze

"The hardest part of my cancer experience began once the cancer was gone," says author Suleika Jaouad. In this fierce, funny, wisdom-packed talk, she challenges us to think beyond the divide between "sick" and "well," asking: How do you...

Old adages can be pretty hit or miss—especially when it comes to medical advice—but it turns out there may actually be some truth to the saying, "feed a cold, starve a fever."

Nora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass).