Recently I did something that felt like my feet’s equivalent to burning a bra: I stopped painting my toes. Call it an offshoot of the #nomakeup selfie movement, an attempt to take the “go bare” thing ...

For people born with hands, there’s a map in the brain that corresponds to each one. And that map is detailed, including a dedicated region for each finger. When a finger touches something, those ...

If you use your feet like hands from birth, the brain will create a different "map" of the toes that's more like the one it has for the fingers, new research reveals. That's the case with Tom Yendell ...

The human brain has an extraordinary ability to adapt to major changes, both in the brain itself and in the rest of the body. New research in the journal Cell Reports shows that for individuals born ...

He was left crippled from the neck down as a baby, but N Ramakrishnan found a way to paint The first thing that strikes you are his eyes. The contorted limbs, bent body, the ubiquitous wheelchair all ...

"Gross!" After more than two decades, I confronted my bare toenails for the first time. And I did not like what I saw. Like shaving my legs, I considered painting my toenails required grooming. I ...

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The parents of the two-year-old who covered herself in paint are now using the circumstance to raise money for a good cause. Parents always worry when realizing their two-year-old has suddenly gone ...

Guests for the preview showing of Richard Jackson’s “Ain’t Painting a Pain” were in for a bit of a surprise when they arrived at the Orange County Museum of Art recently. A giant statue of a dog with ...