29 September 2017
Japanese companies are obliged by law to measure the waistlines of employees aged between 40 and 70.
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Rapper B.o.B. has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise $200,000 to launch satellites into space to prove that the Earth is flat.
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Scientists have discovered the first new rodent species in the Solomon Islands in more than 80 years – a giant coconut-eating rat that lives in trees.
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Dubai is to spend $140 million building the world’s largest simulated space city, covering almost two million square feet and designed to be used on Mars.
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A San Francisco start-up has created the world’s first solar-powered smartwatch.
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A Czech brewery uses crayfish equipped with sophisticated bio-sensors to monitor the quality of its water supply.