Picture stumbling across a bone in the dust, only to realize you’re holding a secret from millions of years ago. That’s the ...

This paper is the first in a two-part series analyzing human arm and hand motion during a wide range of unstructured tasks. The wide variety of motions performed by the human arm during daily tasks ...

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

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

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Records, court filings and emails reveal how federal review of Enbridge's Great Lakes tunnel project leaves tribal officials feeling cast aside.

An Iron Age Roman settlement has been discovered following a rare sword find, archaeologists have revealed. The excavation near a Cotswolds village has revealed what could be evidence of a Roman villa ...

Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the smallest adult arm bone in human fossil record, shedding light on a group of mysterious “Hobbit” humans that lived thousands of years ago. The ...

The raise of collaborative robotics has allowed to create new spaces where robots and humans work in proximity. Consequently, to predict human movements and his/her final intention becomes crucial to ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that ...