By Nancy Houser Dec 3, 2011 in Science. Hedy Lamarr is remembered as a stunning legend in Hollywood's Golden Age. However, most people do not know that she would co-patent the technology for today's cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS by building a torpedo for the U.S.Navy. This may have remained the world's best kept secret if it were not for author Richard Rhodes.
Conjoined twins. Conjoined twins can now walk free after rare surgery at AIIMS. In a rare medical feat, doctors of AIIMS here today separated conjoined twins, who were connected with liver, after a ten-hour marathon surgery.are surgery underway to separate conjoined Tanzanian twins. A rarest of rare surgery to separate nine-month-old conjoined Tanzanian male twins, Ericana & Eluidi commenced at Apollo Hospitals today.
Definition of Conjoined twin. Conjoined twin: Identical (monozygotic) twins that did not separate fully from one another but are still partially united. Due to the incomplete division of one fertilized ovum. Conjoined twins are popularly known as Siamese twins after Chang and Eng (1811-1874), the celebrated conjoined Chinese twins born in Siam (Thailand). Conjoin comes via French from the Latin conjungere, from com- + jungere, to join = to join or yoke together.