Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

I can’t even begin to estimate how many jobs I’ve applied to whose dress codes included a phrase like, “No visible tattoos or piercings.” This mandate always rubbed me the wrong way for several ...

New York’s latest pop-up museum is expanding the definition of what it means to be human. For “A. Human,” celebrity PR guru Simon Huck has fabricated a vision of a not-so-distant future where ...

Six jailed members of a lucrative “human butchery” enterprise can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male ...

A rapper with dyed-black eyeballs, a bifurcated tongue and the number "666" carved into his head has got his most extreme body modification yet - a smile carved into his skin. Pen News/Renato de Santa ...

A heavily tattooed and mutilated man dubbed the "Human Satan" because of his many body modifications has suffered complications following an operation that resulted in the removal of his navel. Now he ...

Biohacking is one of those buzzy blanket terms used to describe a whole spectrum of ways that people modify or improve their bodies, from fairly tame experiments like drinking nasty butter coffee to ...