Octopuses have three hearts, each one crucial to maintaining the robust blood pressure that allows them to be active hunters ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the brain throughout the pregnancy timeline, from pre-conception to postpartum.

New techniques have enabled the vascularization of synthetic cardiac tissues with significantly improved parity to in vivo ...

Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic ...

Scientists in Brazil have found more evidence of microplastics infiltrating the human body. While it has been previously reported that microplastics were found in human brain tissue, this recent study ...

The Franklin Institute's new 'Body Odyssey' exhibit takes visitors on a journey through the nuances of the human anatomy. It ...

With more than $20 million, the Franklin Institute is reimagining two of its most iconic exhibits — which feature the Giant Heart walk-through and the Baldwin 60000 locomotive prototype.

That plastic wrap you find around the food you eat is far from benign: A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach ...

Large heart attacks usually have a finding on the EKG called “ST elevation.” Sometimes we find damage to the heart muscle ...

Microplastics can invade the olfactory bulb of the human nose, which transmits smells to the brain, a new study found.