'The Silence of the Lambs' introduced the world to forensic entomology—but how much has changed since?

In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as ...

The Human Body Isn’t Perfect – It Was Improvised by Evolution

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...
Science Daily

New AI body map reveals obesity’s hidden attack on facial nerves

Scientists have created an AI-powered system that can scan and map an entire mouse body in extraordinary detail — and it just uncovered a surprising new effect of obesity. Beyond disrupting metabolism ...

I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network. The AI agent ...

New insights into how the human hand evolved from our ape-like ancestors

The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why Is Nearly Every Person Right-Handed—but Not Every Ape and Monkey? New Research Explores the Evolutionary Origins of Human Handedness

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

Why were T. rex’s arms so tiny? Paleontologists finally find an answer.

At least five groups of two-legged, mostly meat-eating theropod dinosaurs experienced a shortening of the upper arms over the ...
insider.si.edu

Reckoning with Human Remains in the Smithsonian Collection

Since its founding in 1846, the Smithsonian has acquired collections of human remains for scientific research, most during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The remains have facilitated scientific ...
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Human wrists resemble those of gorillas and chimpanzees more than any other primate group, suggesting we used to knuckle-walk

Think about everything your hands do in a day – scrolling through your phone, typing out thoughts, or cooking something from scratch. It’s easy to feel like our hands and arms evolved specifically for ...