Stories by Bethany Brookshire

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

The upcoming drugs CagriSema and retatrutide target multiple gut hormones and could cause twice as much weight loss than current treatments. But experts wonder how much is too much

Fat is one of the most active, dynamic organs we have. Why can’t we learn to love it?

The evolution of joints is how we went from blobs to badasses

No, but the direction of our hair whorls could teach us about human development

Human anatomy is delightfully varied, but female athletes are heavily criticized for not conforming to socially accepted bodily norms

Snot is one of the immune system’s efforts to ditch a virus, but how much we produce when sick is a slippery subject

We discovered a strange rock in the Sahara we thought was a meterorite. Figuring out what it was grounded me back to Earth

Humans’ evolutionary remnants show us the kinds of animals we used to be

Uncontrollable sobbing is uniquely human, and it may be our emotions running out of our faces, a way to connect us with other people

Your brain might be like a computer, and your digestive system might be like a tube. But in the end, your whole body is just a bag full of bags

This python’s jaw has a stretchy secret to gape impressively wide

Hyenas scavenging near cities might lessen human and livestock diseases