ROME — A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year’s Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported. The 35-year old Sicilian first showed up at a police station asking to be arrested because he [...]
January 2, 2010
Passengers on planes flying near or through lightning storms could be exposed to harmful levels of radiation. Lightning discharges, or a related phenomena known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, can jolt airline passengers with a level of radiation equivalent to 400 chest X-rays. A study was conducted to estimate radiation levels based on satellite and ground [...]
December 29, 2009
Wake Forest University’s Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which has successfully grown human bladders in the lab using only a few extracted cells sprayed onto a chemical frame that mimics the body’s tissues, has so far been unsuccessful at regenerating penises because of the organ’s complexity. However, it announced in a November journal article a success [...]
December 29, 2009
A 55-year-old British man whose bowel was ruptured in a nearly catastrophic traffic accident has been fitted with a bionic sphincter that opens and closes with a remote controller. Ged Galvin had originally endured 13 surgeries in a 13-week hospital stay and had grown frustrated with using a colostomy bag until surgeon Norman Williams of [...]
December 24, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Forget the plastic icicles, brightly colored balls and tinsel. Some Christmas trees for sale in the Anchorage area are adorned with something truly different this holiday season – live Pacific Chorus frogs. While the small frogs are very cute, measuring an inch or two with lovely moss-colored green sides and black spots, [...]
December 14, 2009
For some Asian women, appearing more Westernized through having larger eyes is a very real concern. Short of plastic surgery and makeup, there are not many effective ways to give off the appearance of being more in tune with the Occident than the Orient. Designer Soomi Park has thus developed LED eyelashes to give Asian [...]
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