News tagged with human foot


Floppy-footed gibbons help us understand how early humans may have walked

Biology /

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The human foot is a miracle of evolution. We can keep striding for miles on our well-sprung feet. There is nothing else like them, not even amongst our closest living relatives. According to Evie Vereecke, from the University ...


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Skeleton of 12,000-year-old shaman discovered buried with leopard, 50 tortoises and human foot

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 0

The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by "exceptional" ...





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Scientists, lawyers mull effects of home robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8

(AP) -- Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine.


New forensic technique gives clues about sharks from bite damage

Biology / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hit-and-run attacks by sharks can be solved with a new technique that identifies the culprits by the unique chomp they put on their victims, according to a University of Florida researcher and shark expert.


ET: Check your voicemail

ET: Check your voicemail

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alien beings on faraway planets may not have noticed, but it’s been 35 years since human beings made the first deliberate effort to send them a message.


Discovery leads to effective treatment of painful skin condition

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute, in collaboration with a worldwide group of physicians and scientists, have discovered a remarkable treatment for a rare, yet debilitating, skin condition.


Researchers take aim at hard-to-treat fungal infections

Researchers take aim at hard-to-treat fungal infections

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park has developed a new model system to study fungal infections. The system can be a powerful ...


Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier

Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Princeton biologists and engineers has dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect of how cells and ...


New effort probes how two groups of viruses cause disease

New effort probes how two groups of viruses cause disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University is leading a team of researchers in a federally funded effort aimed ultimately at developing better vaccines and antiviral drugs against two types of disease-causing viruses ...


GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.


CU-Boulder map of human bacterial diversity shows wide interpersonal differences

Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different ...


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Short heels make elite sprinters super speedy

Biology / Other

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

What is it about elite sprinters that gives them the edge over non-sprinters in the 100m dash? Stephen Piazza from the Pennsylvania State University publishes his discovery, in The Journal of Experimental Bi ...



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