Speech-jamming gun silences people mid-sentence
The portable "SpeechJammer" gun can silence people more than 30 meters away. Source: YouTube.com JAPANESE researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence....
View ArticleMan buys $2m Andy Warhol sketch for $5
A British businessman is said to have stumbled on a never-before-seen Andy Warhol sketch at a US art sale – picking it up for less than $5. The 1930s sketch was hidden among other items Andy Field...
View ArticleSpooked horse swims 3km offshore
Beach goers and boaters along the coast of Central California are accustomed to seeing fascinating sea creatures large and small off its shore—but an Arabian horse? Some at first thought the gleaming...
View ArticleMan enters hospital for kidney stone, leaves as a woman
A husband and father of six children went into hospital for a kidney stone and came out as a woman – and she doesn’t mind one bit. Steve Crecelius says he felt ‘validated’ when a nurse reading his...
View Article16-Year-Old Student Cracks 350-Year-Old Isaac Newton Puzzle
Sir Isaac Newton Shourryya Ray, a 16-year-old German student, has cracked a puzzle that has stumped mathematicians since Sir Isaac Newton first posed the problem more than 350 years ago. Ray has won a...
View ArticleLEGO: Inception
HOW good was Inception. The hallway fight scene, LEGO style. Oh, yeah. Picture: Courtesy of VFX That wasn’t a question, a rhetorical question, or even an opinion. It was a fact. (And, frankly, if you...
View ArticleGiant Marble Harvests Energy from Sun and Moon
Analysis by Tracy Staedter Tue Sep 18, 2012 08:38 AM ET It looks like a giant, glass marble. But this globe is no game. It’s a sun-tracking, solar energy concentrator created by Barcelona-based...
View ArticleDeaf gerbils hear again with human stem cells
Human stem cell-derived otic neurons repopulating the cochlea of deaf gerbils are seen in this undated handout photo courtesy of the University of Sheffield. Credit: Reuters/Marcelo Rivolta/University...
View ArticleGoldfish in a Zimmer Frame!
THIS is the best story of pet ownership (a goldfish is a pet, right?) you’ll ever hear. Generally the butt of all flushing jokes in petland, goldish aren’t normally the subject of such good-luck...
View ArticleMan paid $100 for $1m James Bond submarine car
The Lotus in a scene from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. Picture: RM Auctions IT is one of the most famous cars in the history of the movies and when it goes under the hammer this September it could fetch...
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