Men's greatest heroes have drastic physical mutations that mean they can never hide from a world that hates and fears them.

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Combining lab-grown muscle tissue with a series of flexible mechanical joints has led to the development of an artificial ...

Vital opens on Saturday at the Franklin Institute, and features real human specimens preserved to showcase the inner workings ...

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been created. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundled into sushilike rolls to give the fingers enough ...

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

The fashion industry is notorious for its exclusionary preferences for certain body types. The Kansas City curve fashion ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a tree makes in a few thick branches versus many thin ones. Trees have evolved ...

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists ...

Yet, for all its aesthetic and expressive potency, the neck is also a site of fear and deep vulnerability. Villains and ...