SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

May 14, 2013
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Angelina Jolie has healthy breasts removed Actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of cancer. Her mother died from cancer aged 56. Angelina Jolie has revealed that she recently underwent a preventative double mastectomy. The actress, whose mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer...
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Print Your Own Gun

May 7, 2013
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Robert MacPherson Computer files to create a handgun almost entirely from parts made with a 3D printer have been posted online, alarming gun control advocates after it was successfully test-fired by its inventor. The single-shot .380-caliber Liberator bears a vague resemblance to its namesake, the FP-45 Liberator pistol the US developed during World War...
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World’s first womb transplant woman pregnant

April 13, 2013

ISTANBUL (AFP) – The first woman ever to receive a uterus from a deceased donor, is two-weeks pregnant following a successful embryo transplant, her doctors said on Friday. The 22-year-old Derya Sert was revealed to be almost two-weeks pregnant in preliminary results after in vitro fertilisation at Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey’s southern province...
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What Doctors Don’t Know About the Drugs They Prescribe

April 7, 2013

Ben Goldacre Physician, author TEDTalks can sometimes portray science in triumphalist tones, with fabulous innovations that are changing the world forever. But the real action in science is often around dirty, messy, angry problems, and my TEDTalk is about the dirtiest I’ve seen yet. Doctors need the results of clinical trials to make informed...
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DNA test to find which twin is a rapist will cost $1.2 million

March 27, 2013
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Even the DNA of identical twins is virtually impossible to separate. Source: National Features FRENCH police are stumped in determining which identical twin is a serial rapist. The BBC reports the case where police in the city of Marseille are certain one of the two men is the offender, but cannot choose which. The...
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Larry the robot vomits so you don’t have

February 11, 2013
Larry the robot vomits so you don’t have

LARRY the robot is probably the ultimate labour saving device: He does the puking so we can do the partying. British boffins have enslaved an anatomically correct robot (at least when it comes to the digestive and throat reflex systems) to a lifetime of projectile vomiting – all in the name of science. And...
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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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Nazi-Acquired Buddha Statue Came From Outer Space

September 28, 2012
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Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Date: 26 September 2012 Time: 01:12 PM ET A Buddha statue dating back to the 8th to 10th centuries is carved from a rare iron meteorite. CREDIT: Elmar Buchne It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones’ plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe...
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New Zealand hospital removes eel from man’s bottom

September 24, 2012
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A short-finned eel, similar to the one found in a man’s bottom in New Zealand. Picture: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank Source: Supplied A MAN with an eel lodged in his bottom has shown up at a New Zealand emergency department asking for help. The unnamed man presented himself at the Auckland City Hospital...
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British soldier gives birth to baby on front line in Afghanistan

September 20, 2012
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A British soldier has given birth to a new baby boy while serving on the front line in Afghanistan despite not realizing she was pregnant. The woman, who has not been named by the Ministry of Defence, was complaining of stomach pains and it was only then she realized she was pregnant. “Mother and...
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