Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

That’s not a vanity statement for those who want to look good or a performance issue for those who want to be better, stronger, and faster. It’s a medical issue and has been for a long time. And if ...

Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station ...

Crack open any biology textbook, and you’ll find tidy diagrams, clean labels, and plenty of comforting facts about the human body. Muscles flex, neurons transmit, and vital organs perform their ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Discover 25 More Human Body Facts That Sound Impossible! From pain-free elbows to two uteruses, explore bizarre biological ...

The more we move, the more our muscle cells begin to make a memory of that exercise. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

You may not be able to grow bigger muscles out of thin air, but you can 3D print them in microgravity, scientists at ETH Zurich have now established. "3D printing" refers to a type of manufacturing ...

The deep muscles that impact leg movement are generally smaller that those that are directly involved in flexing the knee. Some are small in length, and others are thinner and less bulky than muscles ...

Pedro Lopes leads the Human-Computer Integration Lab at the University of Chicago. Inside the Human-Computer Integration Lab at the University of Chicago, you can find students working on a smartwatch ...