News tagged with fingers
Transformer Pad TF300 a weak replacement for laptop
Asus' new Transformer Pad TF300 is among the first of a new class of convertible devices that are heading toward store shelves.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 11, 2012 |
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Swiss scientists demonstrate mind-controlled robot (Update)
(AP) -- Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Influencing others through gestures: misleading eyewitnesses
Gestures made during interviews can influence or even misinform eyewitnesses. In addition, eyewitnesses are unlikely to recall the influential gestures being shown to them, new research from the University of Hertfordshire ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Rapid method of assembling new gene-editing tool could revolutionize genetic research
Development of a new way to make a powerful tool for altering gene sequences should greatly increase the ability of researchers to knock out or otherwise alter the expression of any gene they are studying. The new method ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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App turns tablet into math aid for visually impaired students (w/ video)
Without looking down, Kira runs her index finger across the screen of an Android tablet that she is holding in her lap. For the occasion, she has painted her fingernails bright pink. When her finger touches ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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How do children learn to read silently?
When a beginning reader reads aloud, her progress is apparent: Hunched over a book, little index finger blazing the way, she moves intently from sound to sound, word to word.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2010, Svante Pääbo and his colleagues presented a draft version of the genome from a small fragment of a human finger bone discovered in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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SANS tracks cell death protein invading biomimetic mitochondrial membrane
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of biochemists, biophysicists, and neutron scientists are using a combination of fluorescence and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) techniques to assist biochemists ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Archaeopteryx and the dinosaur-bird family tree
The magpie-sized Archaeopteryx had bird and dinosaur features and helped show that birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, recent research in the journal Nature questions its position in the dinosaur-bird family ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Why men's ring fingers are longer than their index fingers
Biologists at the University of Florida have found a reason why men's ring fingers are generally longer than their index fingers — and why the reverse usually holds true for women.
Sep 05, 2011 |
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Researchers solve mystery of disappearing bird digit
Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and ...
Sep 04, 2011 |
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Hand prosthetic gives teen new independence
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 15 year old British girl, Chloe Holmes, has been in the news as being among the youngest in Europe to wear a special prosthetic hand with state of the art bionic fingers. The bionic digits ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 25, 2011 |
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A question of gene silencing
When investigating cancer cells, researchers discovered numerous peculiarities: Particular RNA molecules are present in large numbers, particular genes are overactive. Do these characteristics have a relation to cancer? Do ...
Aug 24, 2011 |
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How the mole got its 12 fingers
Polydactyly is a hereditary anomaly that is relatively common in both humans and animals. Moles also have additional fingers. In their case, however, the irregularity compared to the five-finger formula of ...
Jul 14, 2011 |
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The perfect connection between guitar and computer
Guitar virtuosos have to master all kinds of playing techniques. But how can the intricate process of playing the instrument be captured digitally? A special thin film on the tailpiece has the answer. Functioning ...
Jul 11, 2011 |
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