As you bite into a crisp apple, your jaw muscle contracts, allowing you to grind the fruit between your teeth. When you climb a flight of stairs, your gluteus maximus (or "glutes") push your body ...

How muscle changes with ageing, and tries to fight its effects, is now better understood at the cellular and molecular level with the first comprehensive atlas of ageing muscles in humans. Researchers ...

Discover 100 weird facts about the human body and mind that will blow your mind! Uncover bizarre truths about your brain, ...

Human anatomy is far from complete, with ongoing discoveries reshaping understanding of variation, structure, and disease.

Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Italy’s Politecnico di Bari have developed artificial muscle fibers that aim to match ...