Fingertip

<!-- -->The Elysee Palace is yet to comment on the report.A police investigation has been launched after a package containing a chopped human fingertip was sent to the official residence of French President Emmanuel Macron, the Paris…

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Pioneering fingertip sweat tests done from home could replace painful breast cancer tests, a new study suggests.Professor Simona Francese discovered that the sweat on a person's finger can allow scientists to mark the presence of breast…

As technologies keep advancing at exponential rates and demand for new devices rises accordingly, miniaturizing systems into chips has become increasingly important. Microelectronics has changed the way we manipulate electricity, enabling…

Based on an antibody study, dried samples of easily self-collected saliva and of blood drawn from the fingertip could be useful for monitoring people's immune responses to vaccination. In a study by the University of Helsinki and HUS…

A doctor and a nurse recounted the hunt for Hollywood star Johnny Depp's severed fingertip, as testimony continued in his $50 million defamation trial against former-wife Amber Heard. Depp suffered the injury in March 2015, while he was in…

Machines can beat the world's best chess player, but they cannot handle a chess piece as well as an infant. This lack of robot dexterity is partly because artificial grippers lack the fine tactile sense of the human fingertip, which is used…

In a paper published on February 23, 2022 in Nature Machine Intelligence, a team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) introduce a robust soft haptic sensor named "Insight" that uses computer vision and…