Bees imported, from South Africa in the 1950s into Brazil to boost honey production, have taken over from the domestic population to become killer bees.
As with all introduced species, the alien killer bees are proving near impossible to control or eradicate.
After a mauling by her dog, Isabelle Dinoire was left without her nose, lips and chin. The injury require an ethically questionable partial face transplant.
Following the success of Isabelle’s partial face transplant, Peter Butler has now redoubled his efforts to have the ethical committee in Britain give approval for the first full face transplant.
Vladimir Demikhov carried out early animal organ transplants under Soviet post-war rule. But Robert White completed the first head transplant in an ape.
Of course, with a severed spinal cord it was paralysed from the neck down, but the head transplant operation had been a success.
Governments spend billions to reduce carbon dioxide emmissions but, the greenhouse effect is a swindle, CO2 does not produce global warming.
Volcanoes, Rotting vegetation, animal waste even the oceans produce FAR more CO2 than human, industrial activity.
Professor Marcus du Sautoy considers Einsteisn’s theories and why GPS, Global Positioning System, needs to take account of them.
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
The hospitals in Mauritania are full of women who have been force-fed as obesity is considered to be a sign of wealth and big is thought beautiful.
Health campaigns urge women to eat less and get fit. What they don’t address is why women want to be fat.
Nazi Germany was the first to develop flying saucers at the Skoda factory but, with the end of the war looking, scientists destroyed much of the technology.
Many unexplained UFO sightings are now believed to be evidence of the Americans trying to replicate the German success.
Some men so afraid of their masculinity that they will take the irreversible action of removing their testicles, becoming eunuchs with no sexual desires.
Resorting to the horrendous Burdizzo Clamp, designed for use on cattle, the extremes to which some men will do is perplexing at the very least.
Madly in love! You may well be if your obsessive compulsive behaviour becomes Erotomania where you become totally fixated on your unrequited love.
In desperation, Doreen and her husband have moved, 500 miles away. But, they can never be sure that Fran won’t find them again.
A bridge in Overtoun, Bumbarton is the location of many mystery dog deaths eanring it the name Dog Suicide Bridge.
The dog’s sense of smell tells it the scent is over the wall, so if it becomes over-excited it will leap the wall to give chase, oblivious to the fact that there is a fifty foot drop on the other side.
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