A bionic eye implant that could possibly help to restore the sight of millions of blind people could be available to patients within two years. US researchers have been given the go-ahead to implant the prototype device in 50 to 75 patients. The Argus II system uses a spectacle-mounted camera to feed visual information to […]
They died young and, by the looks of it, in love.Two skeletons have been found by Archaeologists in Mantua – Italy locked in an embrace. Almost certainly a man and a woman,they are thought to have died young as their teeth were mostly intact, said chief archaeologist Elena Menotti. “It’s an extraordinary case,” said Ms […]
Amazing news: A frog has been found preserved in amber in the state of Chiapas – Mexico and could be 25 million years old! (Yahoo! news) The chunk of amber containing the frog, less than half an inch long, was uncovered by a miner in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state in 2005 and was bought by […]
“Sword swallowers,” writes radiologist Brian Witcombe, “know their occupation is dangerous.” But how dangerous? Witcombe discovered there weren’t any good data on sword-swallowing injuries, so he teamed up with Dan Meyer, the executive director of the Sword Swallowers’ Association International, to survey 110 sword swallowers and find out about their job-related injuries. The resulting paper […]