We once posted a short version of the story of Ale...  ...in which his doctor observed the process of human digestion . However, the full story of St. Martin's life is...

The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research, now in all-pdf form. Get a subscription now for only $25 a year!by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Improbable Research staffIf you like shrews, especially if yo...

The title sounds like a question a five-year-old would ask, and most of us would reply with something like "I don't know," or "It has to be some color." But it's a valid question, and MinuteEarth has the answers, which g...

[https://vimeo.com/103721959] (vimeo link)Hey! Got a minute for some science? This little animation tells the story of what happens to beans when you eat them. Well, you know what happens when you eat beans, but this vid...

The post about the cow's digestive tract in sculpt...  ...in his stomach, through which his doctor observed digestion and even did research on how foods digested. The...  ...can't just cut a hole in a living human to study digestion , but various research programs have replicated th...  ...how cannulas may actua...

by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research staff Some psychoanalysts can find meaning in the most ordinary-seeming bits of your life. Some discern it even in your intestinal rumblings. There’s a technical name for those...

We've addressed the problem of the methane from livestock farts and burps contributing to global warming. One way to attack the problem is to breed sheep that produce less methane. But researchers at Newcastle University...

On the long list of unpleasant ways to die, it's hard to imagine anything topping "exploding colon." We'll take the stomach flu, heartburn, death by paper cuts even! Just please, please, spare us these fates.1. Farting t...