The hand skeletons of women workers from the early days of industrialization reflect the diverse and unstable manual activities of their everyday lives. A team of researchers from Japan, Hong Kong and ...

Researchers at the Zurich-based ETH public university, along with a US-based startup called Inkbit, have done the impossible. They’ve printed a robot hand complete with bones, ligaments and tendons ...

The hand is a unique anatomical region where bone and soft tissue tumours present distinct diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Bone tumours, such as enchondromas—the most frequent primary osseous ...

A 1.5-million-year-old set of hand bones, unearthed from a lake bed in Kenya, are the first to suggest an ape-like cousin of humans could use tools. While the owner of the hands was a relative of ...

Have you ever wondered why robots are unable to walk and move their bodies as fluidly as we do? Some robots can run, jump, or dance with greater efficiency than humans, but their body movements also ...

People often fracture or break the bones in their hands or wrists after traumatic injuries. Fractures can cause pain and swelling around the injury. Fractures can also change the position of your ...

Paranthropus boisei fossils date to 1.52 million years ago Species was a member of the human evolutionary lineage Fossils show it would have been able to grasp stone tools Oct 17 (Reuters) - ...

We use our hands for almost every type of activity. But hands are complex, and when a part of them gets damaged, it can affect the whole hand. A metacarpal fracture is a break in one of the hand bones ...

Your hand and wrist are some of the most important structures in your body, allowing you to physically interact with your surroundings. Unfortunately, they are also prone to injuries and other ...

The dig site at Castel di Guido in Italy featured numerous skeletons of straight-tusked elephants, from which many of the bone tools were produced. "Elephant bones for the Middle Pleistocene toolmaker ...