This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The hand is where the mind meets the world. We humans use our hands to build fires and sew quilts, to steer airplanes, to ...

Of all the motions the hand can perform, perhaps none is so distinctively human as a punch in the nose ... power and protecting the delicate hand bones. (Crucially, male index fingers are short ...

Clone Robotics has released a new video of its first musculoskeletal android, Protoclone. Touted as the most anatomically ...

Responding officers confirmed the bones appeared to be human remains, Roxeanne Vainuku, the department's deputy director of communication, tells PEOPLE. She adds that the medical examiner's office ...

when the study of human anatomy was still in its infancy, curious onlookers would gather in anatomical theaters to catch of a glimpse of public dissections of the dead. In the years since, scientists ...

A 52-year-old Florida woman was recently arrested after she knowingly bought and sold human bones online, police say. Kymberlee Anne Schopper of Deltona was charged with trading in human tissue ...