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Smuggling Drugs With A Playstation 2

Good idea: buying a PS2 to play some sick games. Bad idea: buying a PS2 to gut it and smuggle drugs into your country. That’s just what these three men, two Canadians and a New Zealander, are accused of. Well, not so much accused but more like getting caught red handed. Australian customs detected the parcel containing the drugs at ...

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Silicon chip could help diagnose genetic forms of Parkinson’s Disease

From Melbourne, Australia comes a Silicon-based chip that might one day help scientiests and doctors with the early diagnoses of Parkinson’s disease. Melbourne scientists have started diagnostic testing the 17 genes they believe to be causes of the neurological disorder. If tests show to be successful, the $500 genetic test could make previous measures obsolete, which were also a lot ...

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