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The way bone fractures are treated today depends entirely on how serious they are, with procedures ranging from a simple cast to the more complex surgeries where doctors fix metal plates and screws to keep the shattered bone in place. All of them could soon be replaced by a revolutionary technique developed by Illumi... |
3 March 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Yesterday, authorities from Madera disclosed a statement associating the two bone remains found earlier with the person of James Stephen Fossett. They were discovered last week, about half a mile (800 meters) from the place his plane crashed 14 months ago, in Sierra Nevada, California. A hiker who walked off the reg... |
4 November 2008
10:40 GMT |
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Andres, the older son of a Spanish family, has a rare hereditary disease called Beta Thalassaemia, which prevents his body from producing the required amount of red cells that carry oxygen. His little brother, who was born only three days ago, has been genetically adapted in order to provide him a cure.The family tha... |
15 October 2008
07:33 GMT |
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This weird behavior was observed by biologists from Harvard University in a species of frogs known as Trichobatrachus robustus and is manifested by a break in the bones in the toe pads, forming a new claw-like bone which then penetrates through living tissue, probably as a defense mechanism. David Blackburn from the ... |
28 May 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Junk food and cola are part of the standard diet for any cool kid. Nevertheless, it turns out that cola is compromising the strength of their bones, as revealed by a new research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition."There is enough evidence that high consumption of soda and carbonated beverages is... |
29 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Mammals are supposed to have bloomed after the disappearance of the dinosaur, 65 million-year ago. During the dinosaur times, all mammals must have been shrew-like creatures hiding during the day and only getting out in the night to hunt for insects. But a fossil jawbone of Teinolophos, an 122 million-year old fossil... |
18 April 2008
09:15 GMT |
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They are considered the rams of the dinosaur world. But the dome-headed dinosaurs were able to batter their heads only when teenagers, to avoid brain damage, as revealed by a new research published in the Palaeontologia Electronica journal. The pachycephalosaurs or thick-headed dinosaurs, not very large (up to 5 m (1... |
29 March 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Walking on two feet is one of the main traits of the human being. A new study published in the journal "Nature" shows that the six-million-year-old Kenyan hominin could have been the first species able to walk bipedally, based on bone anatomy."This provides really solid evidence that these fossils actually belong to ... |
21 March 2008
04:30 GMT |
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There are mummies which can be older than those of the ancient pharaohs. Some even older than 65 Ma. An amazingly preserved "dinosaur mummy", containing a lot of tissues and bones inside skin wrapping, is being brought to light in North Dakota's state museum. Dakota is an Edmontosaurus, one of the largest duckb... |
20 March 2008
03:42 GMT |
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During the Ice Age, the North Sea was just a grassy plain dwelt by mammoths, deer and ... humans. Now, the Dutch Jan Meulmeester, an amateur archaeologist, has discovered a unique collection of Stone Age hand axes made of material coming from the bottom of the North Sea. 28 axes, possibly up to 100,000 years old, wer... |
18 March 2008
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These were the first flying vertebrates, and the largest: some had a wingspan of over 10 m (33 ft). But pterosaurs were precocious also from other points of view: they had teen sex, before reaching full size. These are the results of a research published in the journal Biology Letters, which analyzed the growth rings... |
13 March 2008
04:06 GMT |
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It has been considered that the donkey was domesticated 6,000 years ago, from the African wild ass (Equus asinus), in northeastern Africa, to which it still bears a great resemblance, including the shoulders' "cross" (the wild donkeys of southwestern US and other areas are just feral bewildered animals). But a n... |
11 March 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Nowadays, relict populations of the pygmy race are found not only in central Africa, but also in many parts of southern Asia: Aeta in Philippines, Semang in Malaya, Mani in Thailand, the Andamanese tribes from the Andaman archipelago, Rampasasa from Flores island, and many pygmy tribes also inhabited the mountains of... |
11 March 2008
04:02 GMT |
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The small 18,000-year-old human skull discovered in Flores Island, Indonesia, in 2003, provoked quite a stir. Many people came up with hypotheses of a new hominid species, Homo floresiensis, that evolved locally from Homo erectus and co-existed with modern humans, Homo sapiens. Others suggested that the skull could h... |
10 March 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Beaked whales get their name from the shape of their snouts and their large size, but these cetaceans are close-related to dolphins. This family of toothed cetaceans is amongst the least known mammalian families. They measure between 3,4 to 12 m (11 to 40 ft) length and weigh 1 to 15 tones. They make deep dives and f... |
11 February 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Science fiction medicine becomes increasingly real. There's still more to wait until seeing penises growing from ears and hearts from legs, but a Finnish team has replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone obtained from stem cells coming from his own fatty tissue and grown between his bowels. "T... |
7 February 2008
06:00 GMT |
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1. Today there are about 21,000 species of bony fish, inhabiting all marine and freshwater environments. Their number is larger than the number of all other vertebrates together. Compare this with about 50 species of lampreys and hagfish (jawless fishes) and about 700 species of sharks and rays (cartilaginous fishes... |
29 January 2008
16:36 GMT |
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Chocolate may induce more harm than increased fatty deposits on the undesired locations. A new research carried out at the University of Western Australia and published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" shows that regular chocolate consumption could cause weaker bones and osteoporosis. Female subjects ... |
28 January 2008
04:09 GMT |
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The classical number of cobra dancing is a spoof. Even if the snakes would be tamed so that they would dance to the sound of the music, they could not do it. They just follow the tamer's continuous movements of the arms and knees, while he's playing a wind instrument, as snakes don't even hear the musi... |
26 January 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Men are bigger than women and they have a reputation as being more thick-headed than the females. And here comes the surprise delivered by a new research published in the International Journal of Vehicle Safety: in fact, women have thicker skulls then men!The team made of researchers from the Ford Motor Co. and Tianj... |
25 January 2008
05:49 GMT |
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1. You continuously hear about the health state or the accidents suffered by sport stars. Even you can experience small lesions, a wrench or a muscular contracture without making sport. But, in the case of practicing a sport, even the character of the person can harden the treatment. Many sportsmen, even when amateur... |
23 January 2008
02:06 GMT |
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We associate testosterone with big muscles. Of course, they increase the muscle mass, but do not forget they are also responsible for the bigger bones of the males. And as men experience andropause, this affects not only muscles and sex drive, but bones as well. A new research published in the Archives of Internal Me... |
15 January 2008
05:27 GMT |
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Being too short or too tall impacts your welfare, from social life to sex life. That's why, scientists are struggling to find out which are the genes that influence our height. In a research published in the journal "Nature Genetics" and made on over 35,000 subjects, an international team discovered that genes c... |
14 January 2008
03:33 GMT |
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1.The scaffold of our body is made of 206 bones, joined through articulations. The largest human bone is the femur (about 50 cm or 20 in long), while the smallest is the stapes (2.6 mm or 0.1 in) from the middle ear. 2.There are 4 categories of bones: long (cylindrical) which are stretched and slightly curbed, having... |
4 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Sex hormones in the womb are known to influence the mind, the fingers and the general development. A new research published in the journal "Arthritis & Rheumatism" has found that women with long ring fingers could have a higher rate of knee arthritis. Normally, women should have index and ring fingers of the same le... |
4 January 2008
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1.The name of "armadillo" comes from the Spanish "armado" (armored), the name being given after the Spanish conquistadors. 2.Today there are 20 species of armadillos. They evolved in South America and only one species entered North America, the nine-banded armadillo. Living species vary in body length from 12.5 cm (5... |
3 January 2008
08:10 GMT |
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The oldest skate crime and Tonya Harding may have lived 5,000 years ago. This is the age of the most ancient archaeological proofs of bone skates (carved of animal bones), which are also the oldest human powered transporting means that have been discovered so far. But, the reason that made people start skating on ice... |
27 December 2007
03:06 GMT |
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Being a midget may have produced you a lot of sexual frustration and may have made you wear Prince trade mark hair due and heeled shoes. And neither being lanky proves to be sexy nowadays. In both cases, put it on a damned protein. A new research published in the "Journal of Biological Chemistry", by a team led by ... |
20 December 2007
05:58 GMT |
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This is the gentle giant of the dogs. The Irish Wolfhound breed has originally been created for wolf hunting, as its look has very few in common with a wolf. There are no more wolves in Ireland today, but they did exist there once. Also, there were wild boars and deer. It seems that the last Irish wolf was hunted 200... |
4 December 2007
06:34 GMT |
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Mummies can go far beyond the era of the ancient pharaohs. Even to the dinosaur era. Researchers have just revealed the discovery of an amazingly preserved "dinosaur mummy", containing a lot of tissues and bones inside skin wrapping, including well preserved tendons and ligaments, which are seldom discovered nowadays... |
4 December 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Severe depression can lead to suicide, but milder cases are related not only to mental sufferance: a new National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research shows that premenopausal women with mild depression experience increased bone mass loss than their non-depressed counterparts, similar to that induced by smoking... |
28 November 2007
04:24 GMT |
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Those enormous long-necked dinosaurs are presented like some kind of giraffes of the dinosaur era, devastating tree tops. But a new odd 110-million-year-old species with a vacuum cleaner-like muzzle suggests that not all of them did this, as presented in a new research published online in the journal PLoS One. A team... |
16 November 2007
04:29 GMT |
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Only few doubt that birds are just living dinosaurs. Besides clues like feathers and similar bones, a new research comes with novel proofs that dinosaurs did resemble birds. The researchers at the University of Manchester point in their article published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences ... |
7 November 2007
06:06 GMT |
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Living organisms have amazing abilities. Toddlers fall and hit their head, older children fall from trees or bikes, sportsmen experience violent fractures, car drivers experience various accidents and we escape in most cases without much damage being done to our bodies. This mix of strength and resistance on relative... |
1 November 2007
11:25 GMT |
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It's less dangerous walking through the jungle than driving a car in a big city. The city traffic clearly produces much more victims. A new study could improve the state of victims of the most severe spinal injuries caused by car crashes.A collaboration between the University of Leeds and Queen's University... |
30 October 2007
05:04 GMT |
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If you think this is a mammoth ivory, you're totally wrong! It is the penis bone belonging to an extinct walrus species!The penis' main function is to keep enough stiffness to penetrate an orifice during mating, and to deliver sperm. And mammals found the best solution - most of them have this unique bone n... |
2 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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You can imagine the shock of the scientists looking in 2003 for traces of ancient human migration from Asia to Australia to stumble onto a new human species where they least expected: the "hobbit" human species discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores. A vivid debate tried to establish whether the "Flores man" w... |
24 September 2007
05:13 GMT |
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A dead zebra in the African savanna means a fiesta for the vultures around. But if we're talking about dead whales, this fiesta can last for decades. And there are specialized marine communities which are adapted for this purpose. This is called whale fall and the first recognized one was in 1989 in southern Ca... |
21 September 2007
05:03 GMT |
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You may believe that hyena with its formidable bone crushing jaws relies on bones for food. But hyenas are mainly meat eaters. An animal especially evolved to feed on bones is not a mammal, but ... a bird! If vultures are known to strip the meat of the carcasses to the bones, this one will eat bones, too: the bearded... |
20 September 2007
14:56 GMT |
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Stem cell transplant can save the life of leukemia and lymphoma patients, but this comes with a heavy toll: lowered sexual function. If men are likely to bounce back from this over time, women's sexuality seems to be compromised forever. However, the recovered sexual functions of men or women survivors never rea... |
19 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Thousands of years following their extinction, mammoths still help people earn a living. In the Siberian tundra, the frozen grassland high up in the Arctic Circle, the climbing temperature is thawing out the permafrost (the frozen soil) to show off the fossilized bones of prehistoric megafauna like mammoths, woolly r... |
19 September 2007
06:39 GMT |
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350,000 to 45,000 years ago, Europe's only humans were the Neanderthals. These people were adapted to a cold climate, having a large braincase, short but robust bodies and large noses, and the males were about 1.65 m tall (5' 5") and inhabited Europe and neighboring areas of western Asia. Even if their brai... |
12 September 2007
07:08 GMT |
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The ear of a fish does not capture the sounds in the air and the first backboned species that conquered the land were largely deaf, lacking the tiny bones that transmitted the airborne sounds to the inner ear. Evolved hearing was believed to have evolved just before the emergence of dinosaurs, about 200 million years... |
12 September 2007
06:13 GMT |
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A big bone means more than just a big hunk. And in fact, the way you look is shaped by your bones more than you would have thought. We already know that bones produce red and white blood cells, store calcium and help control blood pH. But that's more on the story: a new research shows that bones release a protei... |
10 August 2007
02:52 GMT |
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Now, we know why English people are so arrogant. Because the plague did not touch the cobby ones. At least the mighty hairy not-so-hygienic Anglo-Saxon warriors were much more genetically diverse than today's Englanders. A new research compared the DNA from ancient and modern English people finding that the coun... |
9 August 2007
04:33 GMT |
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These beasts made an elephant look like a mouse. Sauropod dinosaurs were big, but the titanosaurs were the biggest of all. Argentinosaurs, a South American titanosaur, was the largest and heaviest land animal ever. It lived in South America during the middle of the Cretaceous Period (around 100 million years ago). Ar... |
31 July 2007
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Today the giants of the Australian fauna are the red kangaroos: males can grow up to 1.8m (6ft) tall and weigh up to 85 kg (187lbs). But they are just a pale copy of the beast that once roamed the continent. Diprotodon, an Ice Age koala's relative, was as big as a hippopotamus! This was the largest marsupial eve... |
30 July 2007
05:39 GMT |
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This is really interesting: the world's tallest and shortest living individuals are not only both from China, but also from the same region, Inner Mongolia. Bao Xishun, 56, also named Xi Shun or "The Mast", a 7-foot-9 in herdsman (2.36 m) from Inner Mongolia was confirmed in 2005 by Guinness World Records as the... |
28 July 2007
05:57 GMT |
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Morito Co Ltd, a multi-directional Japanese company, announced at the Wireless Japan Exhibition the approaching release of Audio Bone Aqua, a new and appealing type of headphones that can be connected to your mobile device or your music player. Why is Audio Bone Aqua appealing? First of all, it is waterproof, meeting... |
22 July 2007
12:02 GMT |
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80 % people experience back pains along their life. And in 90 % of the cases, this takes long to treat, over 6 weeks. The most frequent causes are diseases like arthrosis, muscular contracture, trauma, osteoporosis and inflammatory processes, the majority linked to back muscles and bones. Now a spine specialist has c... |
16 July 2007
06:33 GMT |
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