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Eating chocolate and drinking wine can improve people's memory, according to researchers from Oxford University.
Medical students are to study 200 body parts bought from the anatomist Prof Gunther von Hagens.
A giant squid preserved by plastination goes on display in a Paris museum.
The Bishop of Manchester condemns an exhibition made up of preserved human corpses.
The fossil of an ape that lived 10 million years ago could hold clues to the dawn of human evolution.
More people are signing up to leave their bodies to medical science, say government regulators.
A warlock, who led a double-life in Edinburgh, is revealed as a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde "prototype".
The tiny skeletal remains of human "Hobbits" found on an Indonesian island belong to a completely new branch of our family tree, an analysis concludes.
Professor Chris Stringer describes how early efforts to search for evidence of early Britons were hampered by false leads.
An Australian doctor's research is shedding new light on the enigmatic female sex organ.
Why was the practice of bodysnatching condoned by 18th Century society, despite being publicly abhorred?
Pictures from the National Gallery's exhibition of work by Britain's greatest painter of horses show how his work was informed by anatomy.
A piece of jawbone that has lain in a museum for nearly 80 years could be the oldest example of a modern human yet found in Europe.
How a graphic museum is creating a balance between displaying its interesting artefacts and keeping in the bounds of taste.
Volunteers are to be 'burnt' by scientists to see if faith eases pain.
German scientists must address the taboo of Nazi fertility research to make progress, a researcher warns.
Italian scientists discover that the grave of a famous poet contains a head and body that don't match.
The German anatomist denies using the corpses of executed prisoners in his shows but says he cannot rule it out.
Piltdown Man went from being one of the biggest discoveries of the 20th Century to being its greatest scientific embarrassment. This was the sequence of events.
The discovery of a furry limb in Siberia's permafrost region revives stories of the abominable snowman - the yeti.
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