News tagged with arm
Refurbished Hubble Ready to Resume Exploration
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured people’s imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some ...
Astronauts grab Hubble, prepare for tough repairs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, then quickly set their sights on the difficult, dangerous and unprecedented spacewalking repairs they will attempt over the next ...
Atlantis moves in on Hubble to grab telescope (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Shuttle Atlantis and its crew moved toward the Hubble Space Telescope for a 350-mile-high grab Wednesday that will set the stage for five days of treacherous spacewalking repairs in an orbit littered ...
NASA Gives 'Go' for Space Shuttle Launch on May 11
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA managers completed a review Thursday of space shuttle Atlantis' readiness for flight and selected an official launch date for the STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
Robotic approach to urothelial cancer of the kidney proves to be beneficial for patients
Apr 26, 2009 |
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Robotic trained surgeons at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia presented a new and novel approach to surgically treat urothelial cancer (in the lining of the bladder or kidney) today at the American Urological Association's ...
Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when ...
Fossils suggest earlier land-water transition of tetrapod
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 17, 2009 |
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New evidence gleaned from CT scans of fossils locked inside rocks may flip the order in which two kinds of four-limbed animals with backbones were known to have moved from fish to landlubber.
Mars Rover Update
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 26, 2009 |
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In January 2004, NASA landed two identical robotic rovers named Spirit and Opportunity on the surface of Mars. The twins were primed for a brief 3-month mission to tell us a story of water and possibly life ...
Astronauts successfully install solar wings (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts installed the last set of solar wings at the international space station Thursday, accomplishing the top job of shuttle Discovery's mission. Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold ...
One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...
Wag the Robot? Brown scientists build robot that responds to human gestures
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a day when you turn to your own personal robot, give it a task and then sit down and relax, confident that your robot is doing exactly what you wanted it to do.
Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the middle of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) sits a platform of fake grass with tomato plants nestled in terra cotta pots, growing under the light of an ...
Cleft lip and palate: Genes more important than thought?
Mar 08, 2009 |
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Comparing 500,000 snippets of human DNA put scientists from the University of Bonn on the right track. A genetic variant on chromosome 8 occurs with significantly higher frequency in people with cleft lip and palate than ...
New surgical technique shows promise for improving function of artificial arms
Feb 10, 2009 |
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A surgical technique known as targeted muscle reinnervation appears to enable patients with arm amputations to have improved control of functions with an artificial arm, according to a study in the February 11 issue of JAMA.
Physical therapists test mechanical arm to help patients recover from stroke, traumatic brain injury
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Physical therapists at UT Southwestern Medical Center are evaluating a new mechanical arm that allows people recovering from neurological injuries such as strokes and traumatic brain injury to enter a virtual ...
