There are 27 bones in the hand and wrist that allow humans to complete delicate tasks like writing or using sign language. Let's take a closer look.

Broken bones most often result from a direct blow to the hand or a fall onto the hand. Common injuries include fractures of the fingertip, or of the pinky side of the palm, or of the thumb.

A newly identified wrist bone in two non-avian dinosaurs has challenged long-held assumptions about the evolution of flight.

What Is a Metacarpal Fracture? A metacarpal fracture is when one or more bones in the hand, called metacarpals, crack or break. Your hands are complex.

More than half the body's bones are in the hands (and feet). Fingernails grow about 1mm (about .04in) every 10 to 15 days. If you are right-handed, the fingernails on your right hand will grow ...

Using two X-ray telescopes, astronomers have visualized the ‘bones’ in one of space's most haunting phenomena, the pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52, also known as the ‘cosmic hand' or 'hand of God'.

Athletics rookie shortstop Jacob Wilson remains iffy for the All-Star Game after getting hit on his left hand by a pitch, but ...

In Bones, Lance Sweets was a fan favorite, but he was abruptly killed off.

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...