I'll have to try this for myself when the opportunity comes. Scientists have discovered why a fly is so hard to swat. They may not be smart, but they can give Bruce Lee lessons in avoiding hits. Wanna know how to have a better chance at getting that fly? Read more in the full article.

First, there were test tube babies. Now comes test tube blood! Scientists have managed to create test tubes upon test tubes of the rare type O-negative blood using those magic stem cells we hear so much about. Vampires need not risk getting staked just to get some ever food again!

Aside from DNA, fingerprints, and retinas, the body has countless other ways for people to verify their identities. One piece of technology scans the veins of your palm. It's simple, but very effective, and will soon be introduced in the US for any student who wants to attend business school. Guess you have to review for that exam after all, huh. Details in the full article.

Want some brain food? We're serving a platter of delectable trivial delights to lighten up your day - maybe enlighten your brain too. Here's a list of fifteen facts - probably the most useless facts that you'll even come across, but knowledge is knowledge and it pays to learn certain things too. Who knows, it might save you life one day (especially with the Large Hadron Collider's looming activation date)! Trivia can't get any more trivial than this!

Forget monkeys, we evolved from diamonds! Scientists have come up with a new theory that diamonds were the secret ingredient to the primordial soup that jumpstarted life on Earth. More bling in the full article.

A piglet with a monkey's face was born in China. I cannot, in good conscience, crop the picture of said mutant pig-monkey and place it here in the short version, so here's Spanky Ham for you. You'll just have to see it in the full article if you think you can handle... DNA GONE MAD!

In the human brain's history of evolution, it's developed a decision-making sector that is used to make us react quickly in dangerous situations. However, we've come a long way from having to go head-to-head with a boar just to get food (although the cast of Lost beg to differ). Is our evolution on the path of losing this part of the brain? Will humans have smaller brains in the future? Ponder on in the full article.

I usually disapprove of genetic manipulation, especially when I heard about the glow-in-the-dark cats last year, but I'm actually not against this new project from Mars (the chocolate company, not the planet). Mars wants to decode the genetic structure of the cacao tree. That is, the plant where chocolate comes from. Story in the full article.

A photograph of Harrison Ford in People Magazine led to a quirky article on Live Science, explaining why men have breasts. Apparently, Ford "has a set of man boobs that many women would envy." But that's besides the point. So why do men have breasts anyway? Find out in the full article.

 How do you get bacteria to solve math problems for you? Placing them in a life and death situation is one way. In order for them to be able to withstand the drugs, researchers injected these tiny life forms with proteins that will act like variables in an equation. Learn more in the full article up next.