WHIMPERING trackside, a greyhound is given a lethal injection after colliding with a fence at 35mph.  The pooch, which has ...

John Pumphrey is unknown no more. Through DNA testing and old-fashioned sleuthing, the Maryland teenager who died in one of ...

Fans get an ‘inkling’ of the stories behind the famous tattoos of the world’s biggest footballers, while experts help decode ...

New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, ...

Each year, doctors treat more than 6 million bone fractures in the United States. And while it takes only a few seconds for a bone to break, the processes that keep your bones strong and allow them to ...

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the history of unethical practices in research on human remains and the progress toward ...

Beneath their hard surface, your bones are alive with activity, continuously being broken down, rebuilt and reshaped. Far from being static structures that simply support the body, bones are dynamic, ...

Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...

In a global breakthrough published in Nature Genetics, researchers have successfully mapped the cells and genes that regulate ...