Broken bones most often result from a direct blow to the hand or a fall onto the hand. Common injuries include fractures of the fingertip, or of the pinky side of the palm, or of the thumb.

A recent discovery of human bones in Lund, Sweden, has challenged previously held scientific beliefs about the treatment of disabled people in the Middle Ages.

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

In Manhattan last week the swank art firm of Arthur H. Harlow & Co. celebrated its 25th anniversary with a hand-picked show of dry points and water colors by round-faced, affable Muirhead Bone, 60.

Using two X-ray telescopes, astronomers have visualized the ‘bones’ in one of space's most haunting phenomena, the pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52, also known as the ‘cosmic hand' or 'hand of God'.

Two X-Ray Telescopes Capture Ghostly Hand in Deep Space Roughly 1,500 years ago from our point of view, a star reached the end of its life and collapsed into a rapidly rotating neutron star.

Giving robots a hand Scientists 3D print a robotic hand with human-like bones and tendons As a layer is printed, an optical scan IDs flaws and corrects them in the next layer.

The bone breaks on the lower end, close to where it connects to the bones of the hand on the thumb side of the wrist. Colles' fractures are very common; they're the most frequently broken bone in ...

A Swedish woman who lost her right hand in a farming accident more than 20 years ago has successfully been outfitted with a first-of-its-kind bionic appendage, a team of researchers reported.

Life’s a beach — or is it a boneyard? A skeletal hand appendage washed up in Brazil this week — and a horrified couple was shore it was “alien bones.” Leticia Gomes Santiago and h… ...

A newly identified wrist bone in two non-avian dinosaurs has challenged long-held assumptions about the evolution of flight. Researchers have discovered that theropods, bird-like meat-eating dinosaurs ...