Many fine photographs will aid the initiated in recognizing the various kinds of fibers. "This listing of animal and plant structures with different arrangements of fibrous composites is interspersed ...

Fact checked by Michelle Regalado Reviewed by Sunitha Posina, MD For being one of the most widely vilified components of our body systems, fat is also one of the least understood. For starters, fat ...

This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Spiky, gigantic, and fibrous, jackfruit may not seem particularly inviting. But the tropical fruit in its unripened ...

Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD Fibromas are benign (noncancerous) tumors made of fibrous connective ...

In geological terms, asbestos is a whole group of minerals, but there are six fibrous asbestos minerals that are known to ...