Google Chrome web browser second most popular in UK - Telegraph

Google’s quest for online domination shows no sign of abating after figures showed its Chrome product is now Britain's second most popular web browser.

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Australian woman sues over sponge left inside her for 15 years - Telegraph

An Australian woman who lived for more than 15 years with a grapefruit-sized surgical sponge sewn inside her after abdominal surgery is suing her doctor for negligence.

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US man tries to repair hernia with butter knife - Telegraph

A 63-year-old California man has tried to operate on his own hernia by cutting open his stomach with a six-inch butter knife

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Video: Marilyn Monroe 'sex tape' to be auctioned - Telegraph

Collector Mikel Barsa wants at least $500,000 (£306,500) for the sexually explicit six-and-a-half-minute, grainy black-and-white film, which he says was made before 1947 when Monroe was not yet 21.

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Alexis Petridis on heavy metal and the Mercury prize

So the Mercury prize ignores heavy metal? That's just how things should be

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Ants found living inside girl's ears - mirror.co.uk

DOCTORS have found almost 30 ants living in the ears of a teenage girl who loved snacking in bed. Fallen crumbs from the 16-year-old's night-time treats tempted the insects into nesting in her ears.

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Marmite made illegal in Denmark - Telegraph

According to the marketing slogan it is a taste that you either love or hate. But Danes will no longer get the chance to make up their own minds on Marmite after the British delicacy was banned under food safety laws.

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New Zealand man 'blown up like a balloon' by compressed air - Telegraph

A New Zealand truck driver has said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock and forced air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch.

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Amazonian tribe has no calendar and no concept of time - Telegraph

It is the perfect community if you are always late or like to lie about your age – British scientists have discovered a remote tribe that has no concept of time or dates

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Modern life has made British children weaker in the last decade - Telegraph

Modern Britain is raising a generation of weaklings as computer games and health and safety rules are curtailing rough and tumble outdoor play, a new study finds.

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Brian Cox and the Uncaged Monkeys: make 'em laugh? That's a joke - Telegraph

My students don't exactly roll around in the aisles at my tired gags, but laughter is very therapeutic – in the right setting, writes Steve Jones.

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BBC Nature - Spiders protect webs with decorations

The delicate web decorations spun by some orb-weaving spiders are a strange but well-known phenomena, but exactly why the spiders adorn their webs is unclear.

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Hopping cockroach and glowing mushrooms on newly discovered species list | Metro.co.uk

Glow mushrooms and a hopping cockroach have made the top ten list of newly discovered species.

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The Natural World: Bones, beer and a fear of ladders in Rodrigues - Africa, Travel - The Independent

I am about to descend a wire ladder that drops into a recently discovered cave on the small Indian Ocean volcanic island of Rodrigues. My team is studying the ecosystem of the island before human settlement.

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Apocalypse not right now: 'Rapture' end of world fails to materialise - Telegraph

Reports of the end of the world appeared to have been exaggerated today.

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Digital Life - How a book about flies cost $23.7 million on Amazon



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Georgia scientists prove wasps best bed bugs  | ajc.com

Toothpaste? Check. Pajamas? Check Wasps? Say what?

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U.S. states braced for invasion of cicadas as they hatch after 13 years und

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Lyme Regis palaeontologist finds two antique love tokens on the Undercliff (From Thisisdorset)

A Lyme Regis palaeontologist has come across an unusual find in his quest to retrieve historical evidence before it is lost forever. Dr Colin Dawes was delighted to find two antique love tokens while exploring the Undercliff between Lyme Regis and Axmouth.

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Eating Bugs | Big Butt Ants | Colombia

OIBA, Colombia — Emerging from the soil this time of year is something Colombian farmers covet more than anything they can grow: big-butt ants. Known in Spanish as "hormigas culonas," the brown, cockroach-size insects are roasted, salted and eaten like peanuts.

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Girls go coleslaw-wrestling - Florida Video - Travel Channel

During Daytona Bike Week, girls go wild in the coleslaw-wrestling ring.

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Chemists and Physicists take a look at creme eggs

Those crazy scientists at the University of Nottingham are at it again: just in time for Easter, they're using their scientific gadgetry to conduct various "tests" of creme eggs

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Giant blue butterflies to make you flutter | News

Large exotic butterflies and the chance to see life through the eyes of an insect are being promised at the Natural History Museum.

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So that's why dinosaurs were bad-tempered... scientists reveal they were pl

No wonder dinosaurs were so bad-tempered.

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A ViBRANT time for biodiversity | iSGTW

Think of the countless ecological interactions that occur in nature, from the environmental impacts of an elephant roaming the Serengeti savanna to the swimming of a ciliate protozoa in the Amazon.

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