Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary for communications and outreach at the Education Department, shares his concerns about the state of the department.

A team of engineers has recently created a breakthrough prosthetic hand that can deftly handle everyday objects.

Developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers, the bionic hand identified and manipulated 15 everyday objects, including ...

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...

Pioneering prosthetic hand carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds ...

The data glove is made of thin cloth, and its sensors are correlated with corresponding joints of the human hand (Figure 2A). The CyberGlove we used in this study is associated with 18 DOF of the hand ...

Biomedical engineers at the University of Melbourne have developed a 3D bioprinting system capable of creating structures that closely replicate the diverse tissues of the human body. Biomedical engin ...

The future of the NHS is the subject of the first Spotlight Public Lecture delivered by Bournemouth University. BU has signed an agreement with charity Africa Bridge Initiative (ABI) to provide ...

Reich is one of the world’s most eminent analysts of ancient human DNA. In 2006, his study showed that after the human and chimpanzee lineages diverged from a common ancestor, interbreeding continued ...

A photograph of a giant, green-and-yellow tadpole longer than a human hand turned up in an X post on Feb. 12, 2025. At the time of this reporting, the post had received more than 296,000 views.

A human hand was discovered at a schoolyard in Ireland, and it is thought to have once belonged to a child, according to reports. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, Gardaí — the national police ...

Abstract: In daily life, the human hand exhibits remarkable abilities, such as fine in-hand manipulation and multimodal sensing, which are crucial for complex tasks like multiobject manipulation.