Leaf through a textbook, watch a wellness influencer, or listen in at the gym, and it can feel as though the human body has ...

As you bite into a crisp apple, your jaw muscle contracts, allowing you to grind the fruit between your teeth. When you climb a flight of stairs, your gluteus maximus (or "glutes") push your body ...

How muscle changes with ageing, and tries to fight its effects, is now better understood at the cellular and molecular level with the first comprehensive atlas of ageing muscles in humans. Researchers ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have created a network of simple mechanical motors ...

What if a technology could reanimate parts of the body that have lost their connection to the brain—like a bladder that can no longer empty due to a spinal cord injury, or intestines that can't push ...

The human body is remarkable. It can not only perform incredibly demanding feats—like landing a triple Axel—but also endure far more than our fears sometimes make us believe. To reassure you that we ...

Scientists have developed a network of mechanical motors that mimic the molecular machinery underpinning human muscle ...