Chinese hospital seeks virgins' blood
A Chinese hospital's request for blood from healthy female virgins for use in medical research has been condemned as insulting to women.
A smartphone that's a sight for sore eyes in Kenya Simon Kamau, 26, has been in almost constant pain since he was a playful three-year-old and accidentally pierced his eye with a sharp object, but smartphone technology now offers hope.
Fish leaders are born, not made: study Leadership is an innate quality, said a fish study Wednesday that predicted trouble in animal social groups, also human ones, when natural roles are reversed.
29 August 2013
Japan scientists launch freeze-dry animal sperm bank Japanese scientists have launched a sperm bank for endangered animals that uses freeze-drying technology they hope could one day help humans recreate animal populations on other planets.
Tomb find confirms powerful women ruled Peru long agoThe discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago.
24 August 2013
US scientists claim world's most accurate clock US scientists said Thursday they have built the world's most precise clock, whose ticking rate varies less than two parts in one quintillion, or 10 times better than any other.
23 August 2013
Earliest iron artefacts came from meteoriteThe earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite.