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Goldfish in a Zimmer Frame!

February 11, 2013
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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 stories. But one lucky goldfish has an owner so attentive she’s even been nursed through a disability. Instead of flushing...
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Deaf gerbils hear again with human stem cells

September 20, 2012
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

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 of Sheffield/Handout By Ben Hirschler LONDON | Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:09pm EDT (Reuters) – Scientists have restored hearing to deaf gerbils using human embryonic stem cells...
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Giant Marble Harvests Energy from Sun and Moon

September 20, 2012
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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 architects Rawlemon and, according to the designers, is able to collect not just sunlight but moonlight as well. The weatherproof sphere...
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AMAZING! LEGO Reboot: Inception dream brought to life

June 14, 2012
The hallway fight scene, LEGO style. Oh, yeah. Picture: Courtesy of VFX

HOW good was Inception. That wasn’t a question, a rhetorical question, or even an opinion. It was a fact. (And, frankly, if you didn’t like then you didn’t get it.) Now imagine Inception with LEGO. Yep. That’s what we thought. It took VFX – a small team of visual effects and concept design students...
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16-Year-Old Student Cracks 350-Year-Old Isaac Newton Puzzle

May 30, 2012
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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 research award and has been hailed as a genius for working out two fundamental particle dynamics equations that physicists have previously only been...
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Man enters hospital for kidney stone, leaves as a woman

May 25, 2012
Support: Stevie's wife Debbie, right, stood by her after the discovery and they are still together

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 ultrasound said, “Huh, this says you’re a female”. Steve attended a Denver, Colorado hospital due to...
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Spooked horse swims 3km offshore

May 18, 2012
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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 white animal bobbing up and down on the waves near Santa Barbara was a seagull, but were surprised to learn it was...
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Man buys $2m Andy Warhol sketch for $5

April 3, 2012
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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 bought in Las Vegas, The Sun newspaper reported. The signed work is thought to have been etched...
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Speech-jamming gun silences people mid-sentence

March 3, 2012
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JAPANESE researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable “SpeechJammer” gun that can silence people more than 30m away. The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing...
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Acid attack victim, Katie Piper, can see again

February 6, 2012
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Katie Piper arriving at The TV Choice Awards 2011 in the UK and right, with Lisa Faulkner at a London awards ceremony honouring inspirational women in 2012. Photo: AAP / Getty Images Surgeons in Britain have restored the sight of a woman blinded after having acid thrown in her face in an attack arranged...
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