A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Repeated knocks to the head are known to carry increased risks to our neurological health, but a new study has sought to fill in important details around what they might mean for the skull.

Low-dose aspirin is linked to an increased risk of bleeding in the skull among people who do not have heart disease, according to a new study Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at ...

Scientists have found that a special fluid linked with immunity in the brain can reach the skull’s bone marrow via tiny channels that help in the detection and response to infection or injury. The ...

Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually ...

Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Humans have been performing cranial surgery ...

A new study settled a century-long debate over whether an ancient skull found at an elaborate tomb in Ephesos, Turkey, was Cleopatra’s sister. Photo from Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna Austrian ...

Bone marrow, the spongy tissue inside most of our bones, produces red blood cells as well as immune cells that help fight off infections and heal injuries. According to a new study of mice and humans, ...

For people without heart disease, a new study found taking low-dose aspirin is associated with an increased risk for bleeding within the skull. Patients with a low body mass index or Asian backgrounds ...