This was startling to hear. If an adverse health event is dramatic enough, like cancer, our muscles can carry the effects of ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Police say Gerlach targeted mausoleums and underground vaults at the 1855 cemetery. It's considered the country’s largest ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.

After Missouri lawmakers passed a gerrymandered congressional map this fall, opponents submitted more than 300,000 signatures seeking to force a statewide vote on whether to overturn the map. But ...

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers found eight body-like maps in the visual cortex that organize what we see ...

Missouri Capitol Police officers conduct security checks on boxes of petition signatures submitted to force a referendum vote on the state’s new congressional map. State courts in Missouri and other ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses about the answer to this question. Traditional methods can measure the ...

New discoveries in the American Southwest suggest humans may have reached North America far earlier than previously accepted. Butchered mammoth bones, bone tools, and signs of controlled fire indicate ...