Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...

A robot has been developed that evokes nostalgia for the generation that endured duck walk punishments in schools during the ...

"The canonical triad of symptoms in normal-pressure hydrocephalus is subacute gait disturbance, cognitive impairment, and ...

Alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells maintain lung health by acting as stem cells and producing pulmonary surfactant. AT2 dysfunction underlies many lung diseases, including interstitial lung disease (ILD), in ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...

A new study delves into the development of the ilium, the largest bone in the pelvis, and the genes that underpin its ...

Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide ...

The widely used diabetes drug metformin changes blood metal levels in humans. The Kobe University study is an important step in understanding the drug's many actions and designing better ones in the ...

In a new joint letter, 107 organizations reiterated their call for the United Nations Human Rights Council to act where it has long failed and establish an independent investigative mechanism for ...

"It's a key step in what made us human," said study lead author Gayani Senevirathne, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary biology. For instance, chimpanzees occasionally walk on two legs but ...

All vertebrate species have a pelvis, but only humans use it for upright, two-legged walking. The evolution of the human pelvis, and our two-legged gait, dates back five million years, but the precise ...