The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Welcome to ‘sensory heritage’, the study of how we engage with objects from the past besides what they look like.

Vital opens on Saturday at the Franklin Institute, and features real human specimens preserved to showcase the inner workings of the human body. The exhibit is returning to the museum and runs from ...

Science agrees: A 2020 study in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care found that participants who took regular yoga ...

A collision on a ski slope led to Liz Healy being diagnosed with two rare cancers. Two months later, she underwent a 10-hour ...

Archaeologists are still unraveling the mysteries of an unusual burial site in Dijon, France, which dates to between 450 and ...

Tyler Ryan learned the importance of taking care of your feet, and how an insert can change your life - or at least legs ...

“Sometimes redundancy has a way of showing up under certain conditions; they’re not truly redundant,” said Michael Snyder, ...

Understanding of these four parts [breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb] has changed over time—positing at some times that ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WUSF listener Wendy Belkin of ...

Scientists call this feature a “neural fossil”. It’s a remnant of a system that once helped our ancestors pinpoint the ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...