You may have heard that astronauts have their appendix removed before leaving Earth. After all, people say you can live without this organ because it serves no purpose, but how much truth is there in ...

You may have heard that astronauts have their appendix removed before leaving Earth. After all, people say you can live without this organ because it serves no purpose, but how much truth is there in ...

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led an expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean from 1804 until 1806, facing freezing temperatures, hunger, waterfalls, not always friendly Native Americans ...

WASHINGTON - Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That's the theory from ...

For decades, scientists and physicians have believed the appendix really doesn’t have a function in human beings. It may have had a purpose in some living thing tens of thousands of years ago, but ...