Study sheds light on why humans walk on two legs
...cs of the hip and hind limb that allow for greater extension of the hind limb -- in some early bipeds. Taken together, the findings provide support for the hypothesis that anatomical differences affecting gait existed among our earliest apelike ancestors, and that these differences provided the genetic varia...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...ct spheres. In other words, the paper marks a vast extension of the Lorenz-Mie theory, which is a complete solution to Maxwells equation for scattering of electromagnetic waves by a homogenous, spherical particle embedded in a non-absorbing medium. The Lorenz-Mie theory has been around for more than a century ...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...n they look at the back of the eye, is actually an extension of brain tissue, travelling down the optic nerve into the back of the eye," she says. " High street opticians have been routinely looking at the brain in a more direct way than has been possible by high tech brain scanners such as MRI and CAT." Now...... Mountains. He feels his latest study is a natural extension of his previous work. "It's important to study movement among populations that are becoming more and isolated due to shrinking habitats; but, ultimately, we need to study the population dynamics to find out if the habitat allows the species to repr...