Waving away mosquitoes teaches them to stop bothering prey
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Tag: hand
Child’s brain rewires following double hand transplant
This is the incredible story of Zion, the first quadruple amputee child in whom researchers observed massive brain reorganization before ...
This illusion can hack your brain into feeling the space around you
All you need is a brush and a rubber hand.
For the first time in history, researchers restore voluntary finger movement for a paralyzed man
Using two sets of electrodes, scientists have successfully restored finger movement in a paralyzed patient for the first time in ...
Did human hands evolved to pack a punch?
We humans arguably came to dominate the world thanks to our dexterous hands, which allow gripping tools and manipulating objects. ...
Scientists find 1.85 million year old human-like bone
Anthropologists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a bone resembling that of humans; the 1.85 million year old bone is ...
Early human ancestors used their hands much in the way as we do
After analyzing key hand bone fragments from fossil records, a team of anthropologists conclude that pre-homo human ancestral species, such ...
Human-computer interface relays touch out of thin air
(c) Bristol University, UK Using ultrasound radiation, researchers at University of Bristol (UK) have devised a ...
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