The young prostitute Rachel, the recipient of van Gogh’s ear, reminds us of how stigma and social context shape a patient’s ...

A recent survey found that 70% of adults over 50 experience joint pain. Here's what it could mean—and the expert-backed ways ...

Researchers are studying axolotls -- "small, smiling salamanders" -- in the hopes of learning how humans might one day regrow ...

New fossil research shows that teeth originally evolved as sensory tissue embedded in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a ...

In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes—small, specialized skin ...

Axolotls, with their signature smiles and pink gills, are the celebrities of the salamander world. But they are more than ...

As archaeologists with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation excavated a site in search of American Revolution history, the ...

A surprising discovery in the Colombian Andes has uncovered the 6,000-year-old skeletons of a mysterious group of people.

Three human skulls lie in a row on a disk of black cloth – not the bones themselves, but small wooden tokens representing an ...

In this animated educational video, we explore the fascinating world of the human body and its various parts. Through humor ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the ...