The human psyche possesses an undeniable, if sometimes unsettling, fascination with fear. Horror literature, in its myriad ...

Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said. Ancient humans ...

Tailbone pain or pain in the coccyx may occur suddenly after an obvious injury. It can also appear over time, with no apparent cause. Doctors may call it coccydynia. Pain in the tailbone or coccyx ...

On World Head Injury Awareness Day, Melomed is highlighting the critical importance of head trauma management with their resident specialist surgeons.

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

Abstract: Robotic ultrasound (US) scanning of the spine is becoming an increasingly viable radiation-free alternative to CT scans and fluoroscopy. However, due to the complex shape of the vertebra, ...

A bulging disc in the neck occurs when the gel-like center of a spinal disc protrudes into the spinal cord. This can cause pain in the neck, shoulders, arms, and back. Certain exercises or ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discovered 27 bone tools dating back 1.5 million years at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of systematic bone tool production by over a million years. Early humans ...

Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China ...

Romans kept dogs as pets, exemplified in this mosaic from the second or third century A.D. Some of the bones from the ritual deposit in Surrey may have belonged to domestic dogs, but it's unclear ...