A jersey finger is an injury to the flexor tendon. This is the tendon that pulls the fingers toward the palm as the flexor muscles of the forearm are contracted. The injury starts at the tip of the ...

The patellar tendon connects the kneecap (the patella) to the shinbone. This is part of the "extensor mechanism" of the knee. Together with the kneecap, quadriceps tendon, and the quadriceps muscle, ...

In 1785, a Spanish official named Don Diego Ruiz was looking for illegal tobacco plantations in the Papantla region of Mexico (then called New Spain), near the modern-day city of Veracruz, when he ...

Map of the Saqqara plateau showing the watercourse from the Gisr el-Mudir dam to the water treatment facility near Djoser pyramid. The water is then transferred to the pyramid’s network of pipes ...

A declassified CIA document reveals that 40 years ago, a subject used astral projection to explore Mars around one million years BC. The subject reported seeing pyramids, large roads, and tall ...

But the researchers discovered that another potential reason for Lucy's slow, inefficient running may have been a differently shaped Achilles tendon and triceps surae, a group of muscles in the calf.