Full-body scans are making headlines for potentially catching diseases early, but some doctors urge caution. Here's what you ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

Johannes Bückler, known by the name “Schinderhannes,” was a legendary outlaw from the late 18th century, and his body was ...

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now ...

The remains of a human skeleton found at a property in Lincolnshire are believed to be centuries old, police said. The bones were found by members of the public at Brookside Close, a cul-de-sac in ...

The transfer of stone tool knapping techniques to bone materials reveals cognitive abilities in early human ancestors that were previously thought to emerge much later in human evolution. LONDON — The ...

The research reveals that early humans systematically and methodically produced bone tools 1.5 million years ago. This discovery marks a significant breakthrough in the study of human origins. Before ...

Human ancestors’ ability to use stone-shaping techniques on bone represents “a level of complex cognition that we haven’t seen elsewhere for another million years.” Moving forward ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago.

A recent study introduces an innovative method for analyzing body composition using advanced 3D imaging and deep learning techniques. This approach aims to provide more accurate assessments of ...

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