News tagged with phantom
Robotic Hand That Senses Touch (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy, the Smart Hand project has given patient, Robin af Ekenstam (see video) the sense of touch in ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Imaging reveals how brain fails to tune out phantom sounds of tinnitus
About 40 million people in the U.S. today suffer from tinnitus, an irritating and sometimes debilitating auditory disorder in which a person "hears" sounds, such as ringing, that don't actually exist. There isn't a cure for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Stealth unmanned combat vehicle makes first flight
Looking like something straight from a 1950’s science fiction magazine, the stealthy Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system (UAS) successfully completed its first flight on April 27, 2011 at NASA’s ...
May 04, 2011 |
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Phantom limbs learn impossible tricks
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has shown that body images can be formed independently of external sensory inputs, and that the phantom limbs of amputees can be trained to carry out tasks that would be impossible ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Big rips and little rips
One of a number of seemingly implausible features of dark energy is that its density is assumed to be constant over time. So, even though the universe expands over time, dark energy does not become diluted, ...
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Phantom Ray unmanned aircraft makes its debut
After only two years of development, the Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system (UAS) was unveiled at a ceremony in St. Louis on May 10. Built by Boeing in St. Louis, the sleek, fighter-sized UAS combines survivability ...
May 12, 2010 |
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Boeing Unveils Hydrogen-Powered Unmanned Phantom Eye Aircraft
The Boeing Company today unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days.
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Phantom limbs more common than previously thought
After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom limb - the vivid illusion that the amputated arm or leg is still present. Damage to the nervous system, such as stroke, may cause similar illusions ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1972, Apollo astronauts narrowly escaped a potential catastrophe. On August 2nd of that year, a large and angry sunspot appeared and began to erupt, over and over again for more than a ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Study shows brain activity associated with phantom limbs
Geneva, Switzerland - March 25, 2009 - Phantom limbs, often described after amputation, are also experienced as an extra limb in patients who are paralyzed on one side following a stroke. Referred to as supernumerary phantom ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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New measurement technique will help in fight against cancer
A new technique to catch cancer early has taken an important step forward thanks to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). NPL's 'phantoms' will ensure an exciting new screening technique can be relied upon ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Electromagnetic Phantom Exorcises Specters of Metal Detector Tests
In the comics, the Phantom is a masked crimefighter who protected the innocent from pirates, hijackers and other evildoers. While not as dashing or exciting as its costumed namesake, this electromagnetic phantom ...
Dec 23, 2008 |
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J&J, FDA leaders take heat for 'phantom' recall
(AP) -- Johnson & Johnson executives and the Food and Drug Administration both shouldered the blame Thursday for a secret recall in which hired contractors quietly bought up defective painkillers to clear ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Seeing is relieving: New hope for chronic pain sufferers
An f1000 evaluation examines how pain relief improves greatly when the sufferer can actually see the area where the pain is occurring.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 29, 2009 |
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