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Bond Girl Draws Attention to Babies Born with Extra Fingers or Toes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the Bond Girls in the new James Bond movie is drawing attention to a relatively common congenital condition called polydactyly -- extra fingers or toes.





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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found (AP)

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 7

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...


Attention: Extra-hepatic manifestation of hepatitis C virus infection

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 16, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In 1994, the team of Tchernev and Petrova from Alexandrovska Hospital in Sofia examined a female patient with liver cirrhosis caused by chronic Hepatitis C virus (HCV). They were intrigued by the patient's many extra-hepatic ...


Astronauts get extra moving time at space station (AP)

Astronauts get extra moving time at space station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex are getting some extra moving time.


iPod Touch 8GB or 16GB

Apple Goes One Better: iPod Touch 8GB & 16GB

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 27, 2007 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (44) | comments 0

The Apple iPod Touch incorporates the features of iPhone to create a sleek and slim, music, TV, Web access and drive-in movie with the convenience of portability. The iPod Touch is only 8 millimeters wide ...


The Explosive Disintegration of a Young Stellar System in Orion

The Explosive Disintegration of a Young Stellar System in Orion

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Orion Nebula is one of the most beautiful sights of the winter night sky, its gas and dust glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation of a cluster of massive young stars.


Protein-protein interaction explains vision loss in genetic diseases

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The mystery of genetic disease is only partially solved with the identification of a mutated gene. Often, the pattern of disease - the features or disorders associated with it - vary in type and severity among those who are ...


Garmin reveals program to chart cheapest route

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Navigation isn't just about getting there. It also can be about getting there green.


Scientists study cilia -- microscopic hair

Biology /

created May 05, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Texas scientists studying microscopic hairs called cilia say they found an internal structure that's responsible for a cell's response to external signals.


Smart Hand Project

Robotic Hand That Senses Touch (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 10

(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 ...


ASUS Debuts Eee PC T91MT -- First Netbook to Go Multi-touch

ASUS Debuts Eee PC T91MT -- First Netbook to Go Multi-touch

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

ASUS today launched the Eee PC T91MT, the world's first convertible tablet netbook to feature a multi-touch screen that supports Windows 7 Multi-Touch gestures.



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