The anatomy of fight-ending blows and chokes in combat sports
The human body has evolved to shield its vital organs, from the brain's hard skull and meninges to the ribs and sternum ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible studies of human anatomy still don’t get the recognition they deserve
The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...
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Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible studies of human anatomy still don’t get the recognition they deserve
For example, his sketches of the muscles of the arms and human skull are comparable to illustrations in today’s medical anatomy texts. According to Leonardo’s biographer, Giorgio Vasari, ...
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Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
Although that of a non-human ape, the skull clearly had humanlike characteristics ... a student demonstrator of anatomy at the same university as Dart, who brought the fossil to his attention.
All the News That’s Fit: Smoke and dementia, genes in the soil, and life spent in the bathroom
The ground beneath us is packed with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) — tiny bits of genetic code that allow bacteria to ...
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Harvard morgue scandal reaches Mass. high court, exposing vast ‘gray market’ in body parts
There’s a brisk underground trade in human remains. The justices pondered a medical research institution’s responsibility for stopping it.
Bangalore’s Brain Museum, Guwahati’s Witchcraft Museum — 7 edgy and eccentric museums in India
In a quirky museum in Bangalore’s Wilson Garden, you can play with a brain. If the thought makes you squeamish, The NIMHANS ...
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‘Taung Child’ fossil offers clues about the evolution of childhood
100 years of Australopithecus In just a few weeks — astonishingly — Dart was able to use this one individual to surmise the broad course of human evolution as we understand it today.