Cari Nierenberg writes: If two hands are better than one, then imagine what you could do with three. In a new study, Swedish researchers were able to trick participants' brains into believing their body had an extra arm.
Brain scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm conducted...
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Two artificial big toes from ancient Egypt may be the world's oldest prosthetic body parts, according to new research.
The toes date back more than 2,000 years and were found in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, according to research published in the journal Lancet.
One of the toes...