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Japanese Scientists Create Touchable Holograms

Researchers at Tokyo University have come up with a technology that is a first and significant step away from the mouse and keyboard touchable holograms.
Luna Park Crash: Cable snaps on rocket ride

10 lives were left hanging by a thread – literally – when an extreme thrill ride on a rocket-like attraction almost ended in tragedy. Visitors to one of St. Petersburg’s amusement parks were in for a nasty shock as a cable snapped on the ride, leaving them suspended in mid-air 70 meters above the ground. Luckily, rescue teams made it to the spot just in time to free the stranded passengers. This isn’t the first safety scare at the amusement park. Two years ago, a 12-year old girl suffered serious injuries after a trampoline accident – also involving a snapped cable.
Message In A Bottle Returned – 23 Years Later

Plantation, FL – A message in a bottle tossed into the Atlantic Ocean by a young Florida camper during a 1987 field trip has been returned 23 years later.
Judy Kissel, an early childhood and camp director at the Soref Jewish Community Center in Plantation, says the note was returned by mail from a man in France on Wednesday.
During a 1987 field trip to Port Everglades, several dozen children from the community center tossed messages in bottles into the ocean. In the years since, letters have been returned from Maine to London.
Kissel, who worked at the center at the time, says a letter included with a copy of the original note says the bottle was found in 1995 at a beach near a hospital in Bourdeaux, France.
It’s unclear which camper sent the note, as his or her name is now blurred out.
Mutant All-Black Penguin Found

National Geographic Traveler contributing editor Andrew Evans recently spotted and filmed an all-black king penguin—a very rare mutant—on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
Illness Makes Teen Appear Middle-Aged

13 year-old Zara Hartshorn has a rare ailment, which makes her look old.


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