This 49-foot (15 metre) Bryde's whale came close to accidentally swallowing diver Rainer Schimpf off the coat of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The whale appeared right under Rainer, going up mouth open, swimming at full speed to catch as much food as she could.
Remember how that prestigious French laboratory lost over 2,000 vials of the SARS virus? Well, now it's been unceremoniously shut down.
It's almost as if Segway decided to make its own non-balancing Segway knock-off , but there are actually strategic reasons for adding that third wheel, the company claims.
When someone is "blowing smoke up your arse" today, it is a figure of speech that means that one person is complimenting another, insincerely most of the time, in order to inflate the ego of the individual being flattered. Back in the late 1700s, however, doctors literally blew smoke up people's rectums.
A team of engineers at the University of Texas at Austin recently created the world's smallest, fastest nanomotor. Designed to power microscopic machines that could deliver medicine or fight cancer, this thing will fit inside of a human cell.
Oh, you've got your nose pierced? That's cool. If you really want to send a conservative parent or other half berserk though, what you really need to invest in is a pair of 1.5-inch flesh tunnel holes in the sides of your face.
When Paul Smith got his hands on the design icon that is the Anglepoise Type75 desk lamp, the result was always going to be striking—and spattered with clashing colours, it certainly is.
