* Corporal uses pectoral and back muscles to work new arm
A soldier who lost his right arm in a grenade attack has been fitted with a bionic limb - and he is getting to grips with it fast.
Corporal Andrew Garthwaite, believed to be the first of the British military amputees to be fitted with the pioneering prosthetic, lost the limb in September in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while serving in Afghanistan.
The attack killed another soldier but Garthwaite, 23, of the Queen's Royal Lancers, was lucky by comparison.
Slow and steady: The soldier is getting to grips with the pioneering limb. 'It's great,' says Garthwaite
Careful: Garthwaite is so adept with his new arm, which he controls by flexing his back and pectoral muscles, that he can pour water into a cup without spilling any.Pioneering: Corporal Andrew Garthwaite lost his right arm after a grenade attack in September while he was serving in Afghanistan
You would be forgiven for thinking these incredible images show lava cascading down the side of a volcano.
Instead, they show a 'firefall', one of nature's rarest phenomena.
Due to a trick of the light, the orange liquid in the photos is actually water pouring over the side of the 2,000ft-high Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park, California.
For only a few days each year - normally around February - the elements are perfect for the last of the day's sun rays to strike the waterfall, creating a magical luminance.
The national park, which spans over 3,000km, attracts over 3.5million visitors a year - and this is one of the highlights.
At about 5.30pm local time, when the sun begins to set, the shadows lengthen, and the rays hit the top of the rock face, a miraculous transformation takes place.
For only a few days each year - normally around February - the elements are perfect for the last of the day's sun rays to strike the waterfall
Unique natural phenomenon: For a few days each year a 'firefall' takes place over the 2,000ft-high Horsetail Falls in California's Yosemite National Park
* Earth is overdue a solar storm as the sun enters its most active period
The world is overdue a ferocious 'space storm' that could knock out communications satellites, ground aircraft and trigger blackouts - causing hundreds of billions of pounds of damage, scientists say.
Astronomers today warned that mankind is now more vulnerable to a major solar storm than at any time in history - and that the planet should prepare for a global Katrina-style disaster.
A massive eruption of the sun would save waves of radiation and charged particles to Earth, damaging the satellite systems used for synchronising computers, airline navigation and phone networks.
Communications satellites would be knocked out by a solar storm, causing widespread chaos on Earth and hundreds of billions of pounds of damage
Imminent: The world got a taster of the sun's explosive power last week with the strongest solar eruption in five years (white flash, centre) sent a torrent of charged plasma hurtling towards the world. Scientists believe we are overdue a ferocious solar storm
Ugly mobile phone masts which blight the landscape could soon disappear forever, replaced by tiny cubes which you can hold in your hand.
The pioneering technology could also create a seamless wireless network and eliminate internet 'black spots'.
Designers at Bell Labs, New Jersey have developed a tiny antenna which transmits signals without the need for huge unsightly towers.
A thing of the past? Unsightly mobile phone masts could be replaced by tiny cubes to create smaller networks
Hand-held revolution: Wim Sweldens, president of Alcatel-Lucent's wireless division, demonstrates the lightRadio cube, a tiny mobile phone antenna which could replace unsightly masts
Mother of Most Surviving Children From a Single Birth (8 babies)
Known as the "Octomom" by the media, Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez came to international attention after she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. Her set of octuplets are only the second to be born alive in the US and they quickly surpassed the previous worldwide survival rate for a complete set of octuplets set by the Chukwu octuplets in 1998. Suleman, an unemployed single mother, already had other six young children at home at the time, and along with the octuplets, they were all conceived via in-vitro fertilization, which has led to a lot of controversy
World's Youngest Mother (5 years old)
Meet Lina Medina: she's the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. Born in Ticrapo, Peru, Medina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of five years due to increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, prior to the surgery to have other specialists confirm that Medina was pregnant.
* The European / Chinese project is measuring the effects confinement and stress have on interplanetary travel
After 257 days in a locked steel capsule, six researchers on a 520-day mock flight to Mars have finally ‘landed’ on the Red Planet.
The all-male crew - three Russians, a Chinese, a Frenchman and an Italian-Colombian - has been inside a windowless capsule at a Moscow research centre since June.
Today their simulated flight arrived at Mars and two crew members, Italian Diego Urbina and Russian Alexander Smoleyevsky, emerged from their spacecraft to walk on the 'surface' of Mars.
It was a big step for the six-man team locked up for two-thirds of a year, but a relatively small step
Launch: The volunteers prepare to enter the Mars500 simulation spacecraft in June
It sounds like something out of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or even Back to the Future - but one inventor claims to made the flying car a reality.
While it could well help solve the issue of traffic gridlock which plagues many cities, an airborn version of the converted hatchback looks to be some time away from the production line.
Made out of an seemingly-ordinary 800cc Maruti car, it has rotor blades affixed to the roof with extended wheelarches creating a 'vacuum section', and has been one of the star attractions at the Aero India 2011 air show in Bangalore.
Futuristic: Vishwanath's company is part-named after the DeLorean sports car of the 1980s, famously used as a time machine in Hollywood's Back To The Future, starring Christopher Lloyd (left) and Michael J Fox.Flying high?: The 'flying Maruti' is made from a seemingly-ordinary 800cc Maruti car, with rotor blades afixed to the roof and extended wheelarches covering a 'vacuum section'
I know. As you dragged yourself out of bed this morning and went for the Asprin, one burning question clawed it’s way through the post-superbowl haze: “Did I drink way too many beers or was that Transformers 3 spot actually kind of awesome?” It’s actually a fair question! Now, since all fifteen movie advertisements that aired last night are online, let’s take a sober look at each one and see how they fair on the Movieline Superbowl Ad Report Card.
Transformers: The Dark of the Moon Wow. Just when I thought there was absolutely no way that people would be tricked into shelling out money for another two-and-a-half hour assault on coherence, eardrums and intelligence, this slick promo actually got even me a little pumped. Grade: A
J.J. Abrams loves his Mystery Box, so I can't tell you anything about Super 8 that you can't learn from the clip below (or by scrutinizing the first teaser frame by frame.)
It is produced by Steven Spielberg and seems to be tapping into the Close Encounters or E.T. vibe. (Only with a little lens flare, naturally.)
All I can tell is that something serious is happening in suburbia, probably because something escaped from that derailed train. I'm guessing that kid videotaped a secret (I don't want to get too hopeful and say he actually shot Super 8 film) and now the government is after him. And also after whoever gets yanked by that mysterious force in the supermarket near the Crisco cans.
Oh, heck, let's watch the 30 second clip again. It was, for me, the best thing that came out of the Super Bowl this year.
Super 8 Based on the music and the storyline of this preview, you may have also wondered this morning whether Steven Spielberg commissioned an action-packed remake of E.T. from J.J. Abrams. Upon closer inspection, this is actually a new movie…I think?Grade: C
Cowboys and Aliens Some clever editor found a way to sneak in some footage of Olivia Wilde naked here! Otherwise, this ad for this apparently very serious film about cowboys fighting aliens wasn’t anywhere near as effective as the first trailer.Grade: C
Fast 5 I feel like the music should have been much louder in this trailer. Grade: C+
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides This one looks like a welcome return to the humor and adventure that first made the series popular. On the other hand, it’s twice as long as most of the other spots, which doesn’t bode well for the whole economy-of-story thing. Grade: B
Rango This spot gives a nice feel for the movie’s tone without using it’s entire running time to flash-cut a billion images together. Nice work. Grade - B+
Rio As far as CGI animal movies that being with the letter “R” go, Rango looks much better. Grade: C-
Battle: Los Angeles Nothing new here, but this alien invasion-flick still looks solid. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. Grade: B
Drive Angry 3-D Just what a 3-D action movie about Nicolas Cage escaping from hell needed: Critical review blurbs!Grade: C+
Limitless It seems like they could have gone a much more creative route here and perhaps made another fake advertisement? Instead the marketing team went with this bland spot that just made me wonder why we still haven’t gotten a White Noise adaptation.Grade: D
Priest A few points for the ironic Depeche Mode song used in what looks like another man-fights-God’s army movie from Legion director Scott Charles Stuart. Not enough sad faces though.Grade: C-
Just Go with It Weird. I could have sworn this was a beer commercial. Apparently it’s an ad for the new Adam Sandler movie? I still find this very strange. Grade: F
The Adjustment Bureau Is this movie actually coming out? Anyway, here’s more of the same footage that we’ve been seeing in previews for what feels like two years.Grade: D
It was a route once trod by legionnaires as they marched across a conquered land.
But, eventually, the Romans left Britain and the magnificent highway they created was reclaimed by nature and seemingly lost for ever.
Now, some 2,000 years after it was built, it has been uncovered in the depths of a forest in Dorset.
And, remarkably, it shows no sign of the potholes that blight our modern roads.
Constructed by the Roman invaders as part of a route from London (Londinium) to Exeter (Isca), the 85ft wide earthwork stands more than 15ft high and consists of a sweeping road with deep ditches at the side.
It was so densely covered by trees, however, that although its existence was known about, it simply could not be found until now.
Between deep ditches: Experts believe the road's scale was to deliberately intimidate the locals - the site of a Roman legion marching along the road would have had the desired effect
Scientists had to cut down Norway Spruce fir trees in Puddletown Forest in order to uncover the half-mile long section of road between London and Exeter.Artist's impression: The Roman road being built in the Dorset forest 1,900 years ago
After the shocking/awesome Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen he is ready to scorch our Earth once more with Transformers: Dark of the Moon. His victim this time is the Super Bowl where he's unleashed an ad upon the nine gazillion people watching.
It is slow and it is gorgeous. If only the movie could be 120 minutes of this.
* Seeing the whole Sun front and back simultaneously will enable significant advances in space weather forecasting for Earth
The first-ever view of the Sun in 3-D has been captured by Nasa spacecrafts.
Two Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft, on diametrically opposite sides of the Sun, 180 degrees apart have produced the most complete view of the Sun.
One is ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind.
Impressive: Two aircraft, 180 degrees apart, have photographed the two sides of the Sun giving scientists the most compete image of the star to date
Shedding light: Seeing the whole Sun front and back simultaneously will enable significant advances in space weather forecasting for Earth
These are examples of sport injuries that makes You to shudder, to blind eye or (and) to turn your head to the other side. Warning! This is not NSFW gallery, but some images are very disturbing!
The long, thin, beam of light rising up over the Californian coast looks like something from another world.
The spectacular light show, bearing a resemblance to the lightsabers wielded by Jedi knights in Star Wars, took place after the launch of a rocket on a secret mission.
The Minotaur 1 rocket is carrying a spy satellite which will improve the ability of the U.S. to collect data in space.
Trailblazing: The Minotaur 1 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 4.26am
The Minotaur 1 rocket is carrying a spy satellite which will improve the ability of the U.S. to collect data in space. But officials would give no precise details or the cost of the mission.The spectacular light show bore a resemblance to the lightsabers wielded by Jedi knights in Star Wars. Here, Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness, prepares for combat with his lightsaber
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