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anatomy

Humans

Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in health, diet and environment

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Health

Surprising male G-spot found in most detailed study of the penis yet

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A woman's body is a man's world. Just ask an anatomist...

Health

A woman's body is a man's world. Just ask an anatomist...

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Health

'Obsolete' muscle that wiggles ears actually activates while listening

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Health

Mice turned see-through by a dye that lets you watch their organs

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Bornean Flat-headed Frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis)

Life

World’s only lungless frog species actually does have lungs after all

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Life

Owls may actually be able to turn their heads a full 360 degrees

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Louis XIV made a surprising type of surgery popular

Health

A curious history of famous body parts

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Life

Our ultra-mobile arm joints may have evolved for climbing down trees

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P525 - Human femur, with a severe fracture united by new bone, prepared by John Hunter between 1760 and 1793

Life

See the Hunterian Museum's weird and wonderful anatomical curiosities

Open again after a five-year hiatus, the London museum, named after the 18th-century surgeon John Hunter, contains everything from a baby crocodile emerging from its egg, to a human femur

Regulars

Health

Women's small intestines are 30 centimetres longer than men's

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Humans

Scientific illustrations illuminate work by Galileo, Einstein and more

Regulars

Humans

UK asylum seeker plan risks deporting children based on flawed science

Insight

Humans

Old books bound in human skin make for spooky Halloween reading

Culture

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