Madrid's Gregorio Marañón Hospital has created the world's first personalised metamaterial bone prosthesis, successfully implanted in a 38-year-old with tibial sarcoma, avoiding leg amputation. View o ...

Two leg bones dredged from the Taiwan Strait suggest that at least some Denisovans were exceptionally tall, powerfully built, ...

Take a walk in London's Trafalgar Square this summer, and people of all body sizes—some tall, some short—will be wilting in the heat: a real mix of sizes.

Northwell Health’s Syosset Hospital is the first on Long Island to use a robotic assistant during knee replacement surgery.

The large Harbin skull from China has been linked to Denisovans through DNA and ancient proteins. Fu et al. (2025) Take a walk in London’s Trafalgar Square this summer and wilting under the heat will ...

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A masters student at the University of Kansas just discovered a brand new dinosaur species while examining a collection of ...

An international team of researchers has identified two leg bones found in the Penghu Channel, Taiwan, as belonging to Denisovans, an extinct group of hominids related to Neanderthals. The fossils, ...

Can you please explain the ice cream headache? My kids get it from popsicles, and I just gave myself one by drinking some iced tea too fast. Is ...

Your bones may seem like the most permanent part of your body: hard, solid and finished. In reality, they’re under constant renovation. Every day, tiny teams of cells are breaking down old bone and ...

Our two kids are vaccinated for measles, but some of their friends are not. They're protected even if their friends get sick, right? Also, can you please discuss ...

The human little toe is shrinking, but not the way most people assume. A biologist explains relaxed selection, fused toe bones and why shoes aren't to blame.