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A woman in Scotland had the shock of her life after realising her persistent nosebleeds were not caused by a burst blood vessel from an earlier motorcycle accident, but a 3-inch-long leech (7.5c...

Scientists in Singapore have designed a highly durable battery that can also be recharged 20 times faster than current models. The development is expected to be the next big advance in energy – an...

  Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function Sparking Life is on a mission to transform America’s sedentary lifestyle. To bring movement back into our liv...

Scientists from the University of Queensland in Australia have discovered that mantis shrimp have an incredibly useful ability – the marine creatures are able to see a variety of cancers insid...

The next time you’re at the beach your body will undergo the most profound transformation you can naturally experience. This is not a psychic prophecy; I don’t have precognition. The transformat...

On Malaysia Day 16th Sept, a lady cyclist fell from her bike while riding down from Ayer Itam Dam (Penang), it seems she lost control after going over a bump near the bungalow house She was in coma...

Activating a specific gene in the intestines of a fruit fly made it live 30 percent longer, a team of biologists has reported. The gene in question, AMPK, detects and reacts to fluctuations in ...

Short discovery trip to Lake Toba, Medan, Indonesia Taking a ferry via Port Kelang is a great idea  ! (Sadly, the Penang ferry service to Medan is discontinued) If you fly... Airasia, Firefly an...

Intel has unveiled for New York Fashion Week the My Intelligent Communication Accessory (MICA) message display device, PC World reports. The 1.6-inch sapphire-glass touchscreen can display SMS...

  For the first time, an international team of neuroscientists has transmitted a message from the brain of one person in India to the brains of three people in France.  The team, which includes re...

Stressing on the need to promote cycling as an integral part of a healthy lifestyle, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said he would approach the Surface Transport and Urban Development Ministrie...

The multi-gifted French designer Philippe Starck has unveiled four specialised bicycles for four uniquely demanding environments.  Starck’s MASS collection (that’s Mud, Asphalt, Sand and Snow), ...

Have you ever dreamed of owning a mobile home and if you are a cycling enthusiasts, then the Taku-Tanku fulfills all your wildests dreams. Being made from 2 recycled 3000 litre water tanks, this mo...

After reading this, you’ll never look at a banana in the same way again This is interesting. After reading this, you’ll never look at a banana in the same way again. Bananas contain three natu...

Dear Gentlemen, science has a confession. You were once...a female - Watch the video below! which helps to explain where your nipples came from.  :) Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter ...

“Thonet Bike” is a concept of wooden fixie bike created by designer Andy Martin in collaboration with Thonet. Equipped with carbon fiber wheels, this fixie bikes first strikes by its clean beech w...

Have you ever wonder where did your ancestors come from? Now its possible thanks to a group of inventors/scientist from the University of Sheffield. The ground-breaking Geographic Population Struct...

  Windows that double as solar panels could soon be a reality following a breakthrough in quantum dot research could have an impact on the way sun's energy was harvested in the future. Researchers ...

Have you ever thought that light bulbs could do no more than just lighting up your room? Somewhere in the future you might just be able to connect to the internet with them! Li-Fi, an alternative t...

In an effort to save the massive amount of energy standard streetlights consume, and to present drivers with more information on the road, a Dutch company has transformed a highway in the Netherland...

It is a phrase familiar to many cyclists who have come a cropper on our roads and retained the ability to hear the words: "Sorry mate, I just didn't see you." But how could you not see a big lump of ...

It’s no secret that power is everything when it comes to cycling. If you can’t measure how much power you are putting out, there is no way to tell if you are hitting your goals and reaching the l...

Penang Hill is a must do for every cyclist !   It's a great test of your leg muscles, lung and endurance. Everyday you can see young and old cyclists going up this challenging hill.   Some are reg...

NASA finally unveils its findings so far on all their potential life sustainable planets outside of the solar system. In an effort to find life-habitable worlds outside our Solar System, stars simi...

Google Glass, is a cool new device being developed by tech giant Google. It is a wearable specs running on Android (which is also developed by Google), that enables people to surf the net, GPS, s...

Pearl Hill, an upscale neighbourhood in Tanjung Bungah, Penang where you can find a forest trail filled with bitumen ensures a smoother ride. A very good place for cyclist to start their decent h...

[+] Professor Stephen Hawking has predicted that it could be possible to preserve a mind as powerful as his on a computer — but not with technology existing today, The Telegraph repor...

Even if an errant asteroid, nuclear holocaust or other disaster don't d...

  Some time in the distant future — the really distant future, like 5 billion years or so — our sun will begin to run out of fuel. It will begin to swell, its outer layers ex...

  Sending texts after a phone’s battery dies sounds impossible, right? Soon it might not, thanks to a new technology that not only uses TV and Wi-Fi signals for device communi...