The foot is a complex structure made up of 28 bones, 33 joints, 19 muscles, over 100 tendons and ligaments, and more than 200,000 different nerve endings. These work together to allow you to walk, run ...

The nasal bones are two wedged-shaped bones that make up the bridge of your nose. They come together at a rigid fibrous joint, forming the thickest part of the nose. Trauma to the face often involves ...

The disciplines of pharmacology and physiology touch on virtually every field of the biomedical sciences, presenting endless opportunities to discover disease mechanisms and develop new treatments.

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human ... we covered in physiology and medicine ...

Gracie Abrams debuted as Saturday Night Live musical guest with a song from The Secret of Us, as well as an additional track in the deluxe version of that album. Abrams led off with “That’s So ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

They were part of a pioneer population that eventually died out, making them a ‘lost branch’ of the human family tree. Zooarchaeologist Dr Geoff Smith studied more than a thousand bone fragments found ...

Space architect Melodie Yasher has developed ingenious plans for using robots to 3D print the habitats, landing pads and everything needed for human life on Mars. Using robots means that these ...

A pair of studies analysed samples of modern human and Neanderthal DNA spanning 50,000 years of human history to discover when the two groups bred. Both studies suggested this inter-species ...

Although these Homo sapiens populations got an evolutionary advantage from the new Neanderthal genes, not everyone who mingled with Neanderthals made it, and some modern human lineages went extinct.

The analysis, which involved present-day human genomes as well as 58 ancient genomes sequenced from DNA found in modern human bones from around Eurasia, found an average date for Neanderthal-Homo ...