Simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant
Paris’ Public Hospital authority says a team of doctors has performed the world’s first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant.

House on the Moon 
Researchers are readying a robot with the help of an artist to place a little red cottage on the moon, as a symbol of what humankind can achieve.

An estimated eight per cent of India’s 375 million mobile phone users will have their service terminated at the end of this month. 
India is to disconnect more than 30 million Chinese-made mobile phones amid concerns that the devices could be used by terrorists.

  PETA campaigners at Seoul fashion week.
Peta, the animal rights group for which celebrities like Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford have stripped off, is under fire for putting down animals at its US headquarters.

Juan Enriquez: Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis
Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are [...]

So much for Organic food!

How many times do you hear people say: “Well, it must be safe because the government allows it?” But can you rely on that? Maybe a look as some of the foods and food practices which are permitted in the U.S. and banned in Europe could shed light on how governments [...]

Diving to New Depths

A woman from London has set a new freediving world record after swimming 96m (318ft) below the surface of the ocean and back in a single breath. Sara Campbell, 37, from Wandsworth, spent 3min 36sec submerged off an island in the Bahamas.
The dive in the Vertical Blue contest took her down the [...]

Chocolate for the time impared

Pitched as “a revolutionary new way of eating chocolate,” Le Whif will come in four chocolate flavors: mint, raspberry, mango and plain. It is the invention of Harvard Professor David Edwards and appeals to the chocolate-ologist in all of us:

“Over the centuries we’ve been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter [...]