Body types, or somatotypes, are generally classified into three categories: mesomorphs, ectomorphs, and endomorphs. Let's ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

Scientists want to make a real-life Frankenstein's lab to create 'spare' bodies for use in medical trials and as a source of ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

We have two types of hair, says dermatologist Elizabeth Houshmand. Vellus hairs, or “peach fuzz,” cover virtually our entire ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...

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. Known as ...

"Traditional modeling packages are used for geometric optimization of rigid structures, and are not usually designed to solve shape optimization problems for soft materials," he said. "Engineers ...