The Honest Hand: Tiny Magnets Teach a Prosthetic to Feel Its Own Motion
For thirty years, the bionic hand had one unfixable flaw: it never knew where it was.
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For thirty years, the bionic hand had one unfixable flaw: it never knew where it was.
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Should the triumphal arch include an elevator? The administration says yes. A reader asks whether it goes all the way to the top.
Poll results reflect the views of 311 readers, one structural engineer who has stopped answering email, and a groundskeeper who keeps asking whether the eternal flame is rated for s'mores.
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