New materials designed by artificial intelligence promise to provide stronger hip replacements and improve how fractures heal ...

The femur is the strongest and longest bone in the human body, with the average adult femur measuring about 18 inches in length. Dr. Weinschenk and his UT Southwestern and UT Dallas colleagues made ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur - the longest and strongest bone in the body - that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real femur.

Mechanical engineers designed a 3D-printed femur that could help doctors prepare for surgeries to repair bones and develop treatments for bone tumors. The study, which focused on the middle section of ...

The thigh bone of one of the biggest animals to ever exist has been discovered the paleontological site in southwestern France. The femur bone is over six feet long and is thought to have belonged to ...

In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three ...

While fishing along the Brazos River in Texas, Scott Fuller spotted a floating piece of history: an 800-year-old human femur bone. Fuller found the bone floating about a foot from the river's shore, ...