Seven dogs starved of food and water for two weeks are suspected of eating their Indonesian owner after he returned to his hometown in Manado from a holiday, local media reported on Tuesday.
via Reuters.
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Working with capuchin monkeys, a Yale research team managed to teach the primates to use currency and, in doing so, unlocked several mysteries behind human beings sometimes odd behavior with money.
via Digital Journal
While danger from Mother Nature’s fury was blowing away from the region Sunday, police said a man-made act of road rage took place in Silver Spring, Md.
via NBC Washington.
Researchers have shown for the first time that a single intravenous infusion of a genetically engineered virus can home in on cancer, killing tumor cells in patients without harming healthy tissue.
Leroy Luetscher was working in his back garden when he dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed point-side down in the ground.
“It wasn’t easy but because it’s so like (science) fiction, engineers had a lot of fun making it.
Interviews with science fiction author Norman Spinrad & PostSecret creator Frank Warren.
It sounds like an urban legend: giant mutant-looking rats roaming a city housing project. Only there’s a picture.
via NY Daily News
Japans government estimates the amount of radioactive caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs.
