Patrick Dempsey shared a rare throwback picture of him and his daughter, Talula, together on social media to pay homage to ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...

Scientists are starting to understand more about the small heart muscle fibers that Da Vinci showed in his illustrations over ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage ...