Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible?

Thousands of bodies are buried in shallow graves around Raqqa, Syria. One group is using Facebook and Google Earth to identify human remains and rebury them where they belong.

“The U.S. patent code was never meant to cover your genes, your cells, your blood, or the marrow in your bones. But it does. And the worst thing is, it’s too late for you to do anything about it. You’ve already been sold.”

“For the first few days after the surgery, it was difficult to separate out my newly implanted sense from the bits of pain and sensation created by the trauma of having the magnet jammed in my finger.”

When we form our thoughts into speech, some of it leaks through our hands. Gestures are thoughts, ideas, speech acts made tangible in the air. They can even, for a moment, outlive the speaker.

What hand motions can teach us about language, ethnicity and assimilation.

The 66-year-old became lost while hiking the Appalachian Trail. She survived for at least 16 days before crawling into her sleeping bag one last time, her journal sealed in a waterproof bag.

A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”

No house is private. It may be purchased, and thus legally private property, but it doesn’t stand alone. Through its extending wires, pipes, inputs and outputs, the house (with few off-grid exceptions) is tied up in the cyborg systems of the city and the supply chains and logistical inputs that extend around the globe.

“A body is a body, but personal effects are a life.”

Meet the people decomposing on a body farm.

The man behind the Body Worlds exhibit faces his own death.

When your job is making it seem like body decompositions, suicides, and murders never happened.

An unidentified body found near the beach in Australia in 1948. An unclaimed suitcase. A coded note.

A comedian’s relationship with his body.

Confronting a body excluded from beauty amid Italy’s natural splendor.

Throughout their troubled lives, identical twins William and Chris Cormier shared a preternatural bond. Then the body of a Florida journalist ended up in their backyard.

How the feds flipped a corrupt American soccer official named Chuck Blazer and brought down the sport’s governing body.

A BASE jumper emerges from a coma after a bad fall and sets about rebuilding his body and his life.

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

A growing body of research suggests that trees can communicate and cooperate in the wild.

“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”

A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.

The process of claiming a loved one’s body after a massacre at a Kenyan university.

On a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the body-building culture of Venice Beach in the 1970s.