In certain film adaptations, a dismembered head is tacked onto the malformed body. Then, with the help of a lightning storm, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The origin of the human chin is still being debated, as scientists have failed to work out why exactly we have one ...

A new imaging breakthrough combines ultrasound and light-based techniques to generate vivid 3D images that show both tissue ...

As much as we would like to, we don't have all the answers.

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, ...

New research suggests that long-standing assumptions about sex and gender continue to shape how studies are designed, interpreted, and reported.