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Fingerprints Enhance Our Sense of Touch – Technology Networks
Our fingerprints are an indelible marker of our identity. Fully developed by birth, they will remain constant throughout our adult life. But beyond their utility…
Our fingerprints are an indelible marker of our identity. Fully developed by birth, they will remain constant throughout our adult life. But beyond their utility for criminal-catching and spy movie cliches, why exactly do we have fingerprints? A new study has provided an answer: they may help improve our sense of touch.
A team of Canadian and Swedish researchers teased out the labyrinthine connections that constitute the nerve ending fibers in our fingertips to reveal that sensitive touch hotspots…
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