The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an ...

Kari Lies, left,, first-year medical student; Anna Reimer, second-year medical student; and Abby Hipp, first-year medical student, try out the virtual reality headsets recently acquired by the Anatomy ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

When Paul Tafforeau saw his first experimental scans of a COVID-19 victim’s lung, he thought he had failed. A paleontologist by training, Tafforeau had been laboring with a team strewn across Europe ...

It is a horror story without monsters or demons, though evil is certainly present. In the absence of an intelligible motive, Erin Patterson’s alleged triple-murder of her in-laws has elicited ...

Learn how to draw the upper body with simple steps. This tutorial covers basic anatomy and proportions for the chest, shoulders, and neck—perfect for beginners looking to improve their character ...

The chest includes some of the most prominent muscles of our body, and they’re at work for us almost constantly. The main function of the chest muscles is to help you bring your arms closer to your ...

Many of us have gone our entire lives without knowing what our bodies even look like on the inside. I'm sure, by now, we're all beyond familiar with diagrams of female pelvic anatomy probably first ...

PROF. WALMSLEY, in this manual, ranges himself with those teachers of anatomy who think that the subject should be studied almost exclusively in the dissecting-room, and that the student should be ...