Born with a deformed left leg, Sonn was forced to walk on the top of his foot, a painful condition that meant getting around was tough. The solution, doctors decided, was to amputate and fit him with ...

After 30 surgeries to correct a foot deformed at birth and worsening with age, 12-year-old Elena Williams just wanted to walk without pain. She decided on amputation and a prosthesis, but not before a ...

In a study released last week, computer scientist Selim Akl of Queens University demonstrated that slime mold is fantastically efficient at finding the quickest route to food. When he placed rolled ...

Parents collect mementos of special events in the life of their child starting at birth. We came upon the idea of making impressions of a baby's hand and/or foot in the newborn intensive care unit ...

Born with a deformed left leg, Sonn was forced to walk on the top of his foot, a painful condition that meant getting around was tough. The solution, doctors decided, was to amputate and fit him with ...

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