according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, and the name may date back to Native American tribes and early colonial times when wolves would howl outside villages.

According to the Ontario Native Literacy Project, the Ojibwe (or Anishinaabe) peoples called it Mnido Giizis, the Spirit Moon, marking a time of prayer and contemplation. The Tlingit of the Pacific Northwest call the January full moon T'awaak Dís, or Goose Moon, while the Haida called it Táan Kungáay, or "Bear hunting moon," according to the Tlingit Moon and Tide Teaching Resource published by the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

In China, the traditional lunar calendar calls this full moon lunation the 12th month, Làyuè , or Preserved Month, named for the practice of preserving meats during the winter.

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Advances in bionic hands have restored a sense of touch to two patients for more than a year, report US scientists.

The men can now delicately pluck the stalks out of cherries.

Sensors on the artificial hand are used to send signals directly to the nerves, the study, published in Science Translational Medicine, said.

Meanwhile, a Swedish team has made a separate breakthrough in artificial limbs - anchoring bionic arms directly on to the bone to improve control.

One of the beneficiaries of the American work was Igor Spetic, who lost his right hand in an accident four years ago.

He was fitted with a bionic replacement, but it was incapable of feeling the world around him.

He had to carefully watch what