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Uncorking Longevity
Cane or Breast for Naughty Students
A schoolteacher has been suspended in Zimbabwe for allegedly giving pupils the choice of being caned or suckling her breasts.
Hypnosis Doubles Fertilization Success Rate
Hypnosis can double a woman’s chances of getting pregnant after in-vitro fertilisation treatment, according to new research.
Student Sets New Text Messaging Record
A Singaporean student looks to have smashed the world record for high speed text messaging.
Sneakiest Primates Shown to Have Biggest Brains
Monkeys and apes who are good at deceiving their peers also have the biggest brains relative to their body size. The finding backs the “Machiavellian intelligence” theory.
Toymaker Invents Dream Machine
A Japanese toymaker claims to have invented a gadget that can help people control their dreams.
World’s First Pregnancy from Frozen Ovaries
For the first time a woman has become pregnant after having thin slices of her ovaries removed and frozen during cancer treatment, and then re-implanted.
Virtual Fences to Herd Wi-Fi Cattle
Virtual, moving fences controlled from a laptop could one day herd cattle to fresh fields for grazing, a roboticist told the MobiSys 2004 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday.
Men Talk More Than Women
According to a new study by Cingular Wireless, men on the company’s network are 16% more talkative than women for the fourth year in a row.
Sensor Nation
Dust-sized wireless communications nodes, pinhead-size cameras, and other sensors; contact-lens video displays and wearable computers controlled by subvocal speech and other muscle movements; and the ability to google anything, anywhere–we will soon be able to know almost everything about everyone.
Teching Up the Low-Tech Silent Auction
While the auction might be silent, there is bound to be a lot of buzz surrounding the silent auction technology featured at this weekend’s Denver Polo Classic.
NASA Considers Mobile Lunar Base
Landing mobile bases on the moon is an idea whose time has come, according to a NASA researcher.
