Shoes may change the structure of our ankle bones

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What happened

Wearing shoes seems to affect the density and volume of a spongy network within a bone in our ankles, which could affect the validity of previous research into the evolution of walking…

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  • Reported by New Scientist and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:00:00 UTC.

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