This landscape of blue, red, and gold is a cross section through a developing human bone. Human bones have a hard outer layer made of condensed bone and a softer inner core of spongy bone. This ...

Repairing bones and cartilage may get easier thanks to newly discovered human skeletal stem cells. Scientists found the stem cells, which give rise to bones, cartilage and the spongy bone that harbors ...

Woodpeckers’ skulls aren’t built to absorb shock, but rather to deliver a harder and more efficient hit into wood. Woodpeckers hammer their beaks onto tree trunks to communicate, to look for food or ...

The bone marrow is the spongy tissue on the inside of your bones. It produces blood cells and later becomes responsible for storing fat and certain stem cells. A bone marrow malfunction is related to ...

The earliest attempts to understand the "pneumatized spaces" in the skulls of primates in general were focussed on the hollow spaces and the epithelium which covers their surfaces. More recent ...

Bones are a key part of your skeletal system. They’re lightweight structures that are incredibly strong. A normal adult has around 206 bones in their body. Your bones join together to make your ...

A unique collaboration between paleontologists, mechanical engineers and biomedical engineers revealed that the trabecular bone structure of hadrosaurs and several other dinosaurs is uniquely capable ...