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Japan high-tech toilet makers flush with success
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 25, 2010
In Japan, the global leader in high-tech toilet design, the latest restroom marvel should come with a health warning for hypochondriacs - it doubles as a medical lab that can really spoil your day.
Japanese toilets have long and famously dominated the world of bathroom hygiene with their array of functions, from posterior shower jets to perfume bursts and noise-masking audio effects for the ... more
Giant Chinese 'Michelin baby' startles doctors: reports
Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2010
Doctors in central China are puzzling over a 10-month-old baby boy who weighs 20 kilos (44 lbs) - about as much as a normal child of six years - but is otherwise healthy, state media reported.
The infant, whose name was not given, was brought to a children's hospital in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha earlier this month with a fever, the China News Service said.
Doctors were s ... more
Scientist: World's helium being squandered
Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2010
The world is running out of helium, a resource that cannot be renewed, and supplies could run out in 25 to 30 years, a U.S. researcher says.
Nobel-prize winning physicist Robert Richardson warns that the inert gas is being sold off far to cheaply - so cheaply there is no incentive to recycle it - and world supplies of the gas, a vital component of medical MRI scanners, spacecraft and ... more
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