"The brain has no pain receptors. Although it processes pain signals from other parts of the body, the brain itself cannot ...

A 140,000-year-old skull discovered in Israel suggests a possible Neanderthal-Homo sapien hybrid child. Unearthed in Skhul ...

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would have looked like.

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

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For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.

Background Preclinical testing platforms that accurately replicate complex human cerebral vasculature are critical to advance neurointerventional knowledge, tools, and techniques. Here, we introduced ...

Doctors have successfully reattached an Illinois woman's skull to her spine after a freak accident left her with a nearly fatal internal decapitation, according to a report.

4,000 Years Ago, Nubian Women Were Carrying Loads—and Babies—Using Head Straps Elite women in ancient Nubia carried babies using head straps, don't you dare to try this at home.

The neck epitomizes the dual nature of the human condition, the ways in which beauty and frailty are often entwined, two sides of the same coin in our biology, in our relationships – and, yes ...

The mummified head and neck revealed many of the traumas. Radiocarbon-dating later placed the unidentified man as having lived between the mid-Roman period of 100-200 AD.