The film discusses the human skeleton and muscles through the perspective of a college student explaining to his younger brother. It covers the structure and function of bones, including their ...

Melondy Phillips Staff Writer In an age of climate-controlled homes, offices and even vehicles, many humans have become ...

For more than two decades, researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have been investigating a severe form of ...

Scientists have been working for years to create robots powered by living muscle tissue. These biohybrid robots combine ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

A muscle in the quadriceps, the rectus femoris muscle is attached to the hip and helps to extend or raise the knee. This muscle is also used to flex the thigh. The rectus femoris is the only muscle ...

Your eyes, heart, masseter, and tongue may all be considered the largest in your body. Each muscle gives us insight into how our body functions and helps figure out how to stay healthy. The largest ...

DALLAS — Far from any battlefield, North Texas scientists are testing a familiar nutrient they hope can help regrow soldiers’ ...

A baby's body has about 300 bones at birth. These eventually fuse to form the 206 bones that adults generally have, according to the Nemours Children's Health System. But no matter the age of an ...