News tagged with thumb
Jumping gene enabled key step in corn domestication
Corn split off from its closest relative teosinte, a wild Mexican grass, about 10,000 years ago thanks to the breeding efforts of early Mexican farmers. Today it's hard to tell that the two plants were ever close kin: Corn ...
Sep 25, 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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How to text message and avoid pain
While it is well known that excessive text messaging can result in sore thumbs, less is known about its possible effects on the neck, arms and hands. Young adults with symptoms in these parts of the body use ...
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Why the middle finger has such a slow connection
Each part of the body has its own nerve cell area in the brain -- we therefore have a map of our bodies in our heads. The functional significance of these maps is largely unclear. What effects they can have is now shown by ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 07, 2012 |
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The iPhone's Siri doesn't seem so smart in Scotland
D'ye want me tae spaek more clearly, Siri? Aye, ye would.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 02, 2012 |
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An electronic green thumb
If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor nodes will aid in that: the network ensures a problem-free communication ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram readings
In 2011 -- to the consternation of women everywhere -- a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Being ignored hurts, even by a stranger
(Medical Xpress) -- Feeling like you’re part of the gang is crucial to the human experience. All people get stressed out when we’re left out. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Associ ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Socioeconomic status more influential than race in determination of child abuse
An Indiana University School of Medicine study has determined that a patient's socioeconomic status has more influence than race on physician diagnosis of whether a child's injury was accidental or caused by abuse.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2012 |
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The opposite of evil: Google named best place to work in America
Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place to work in America.
Jan 20, 2012 |
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USB key opens home files from anywhere
A USB-style key that splits in two lets people open their home or work computer files from any Internet-linked computer.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Can cosmetic surgery tame its Wild West?
From US "Botox parties" to Asia's craze for eyelid jobs or Brazilian bum lifts, millions now reshape their bodies through cosmetic surgery each year.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Nanoscale biological coating is a new way to stop the bleeding
MIT engineers have developed a nanoscale biological coating that can halt bleeding nearly instantaneously, an advance that could dramatically improve survival rates for soldiers injured in battle.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 10, 2012 |
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