According to archeological sources, a bronze leg manufactured in about 300 BC in Rome has been considered the world’s oldest prosthetic device until recently. It may be no longer true. A recent study carried out by researchers at the University of Manchester indicates that an artificial big toe, made in ancient Egypt sometime between 1000 BC and 600 BC, could qualify for the title of the oldest prosthesis in history, France Press reports. The big toe was discovered during an excavation in 2000. It is currently on display in the Cairo Museum.

17.09.2007
The animal world is full of quirks of nature when it comes to sexuality. Keeping this in mind, we could easily back even the most unconventional postulates with regard to morals in human sexuality by citing needful examples related to the animal kingdom. Some animals play by the book sealed by monogamy. Others are rather chaotic and promiscuous in terms of manifestations of their sexual behavior. Some are known for their long and ceremonious mating rituals, others get down to business without wasting their time on foreplay

14.09.2007
A group of engineers, designers and programmers at Hanson Robotics in Texas have created a 17-inch tall, 6-pound robot boy bearing the same name as the company's founder's 18-month-old son, Zeno.

12.09.2007
A ten-year-old schoolboy named as Slava Krasheninnikov was endowed with a miraculous gift of predicting the future and curing the sick. The boy has been dead for fourteen years yet the ailing ones keep praying to him as if he were a saint. Those who venerate his gift even ordered a special icon on which the boy was painted in the form of an angel