By adulthood, humans have 206-213 bones. Bones are living, active tissues that the body is constantly remodeling. Their functions include supporting body structure, protecting key organs ...

Metal screws are indispensable in bone surgery, but they can fail under everyday stress and complications can occur when ...

“With no other animal bones, this doesn’t look much like a dwelling where people lived for a while,” Shipman added. Close up of the structure, featuring long bones, a lower jaw (top ...

Scientists have now combined visualization techniques, engineering principles, and statistical analysis into a powerful new way of analyzing the structure of long bones. Our skeletons hold tell ...

The giant reptiles lived between 66 million and 225 million years ago, and their unusual proportions—big heads at the end of long ... while keeping the bone lightweight enough for flight ...

Long periods in space damage bone structure irreparably in some cases and can make parts of the human skeleton age prematurely by up to 10 years. This is what a sport scientist at Friedrich ...

Hand and colleagues decided to have a closer look at the fossil, including the internal microstructure of the bone, using CT and other scanning techniques. "While the external structure of a bone ...

The ring of skulls, skeletons, tusks and other bones was too large ... could not be ruled out that the structure might have been used as a cozy home during the long winters, which could reach ...

to image the bone structure of the tibia in the lower leg and the radius in the lower arm. The team took these images at four points in time — before spaceflight, when the astronauts returned ...

which mimics the structure of long bones in the body. When implanted, the structures "matured" into bone tissues which have a working blood vessel network and bone marrow inside which supplies ...

A new study finds that changes in bone structure make faces look older ... “Physicians have long been taught that facial aging is caused by soft tissue descent and loss of elasticity ...