It's not a tumor, it's a towel! In 1983, surgeons at the Asahi General Hospital in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo performed ulcer surgery and unknowingly left a surgical towel inside the patient. Twenty-five years later, the unnamed 49-year-old man sought help at a different hospital for abdominal pain. Doctors found what they believed to be a 3-inch tumor. Surgeons only realized the mass was a towel when they removed it! The towel is blue-green, but they are not certain of its original color.... READ ON

Exam Had Answers on the Back 12,000 teenagers in Britain took the GCSE music exam last week. Most didn't notice that the answers to the test questions were printed on the last page of the exam booklet. "All exam papers have a copyright statement dealing with source material on the back page," an OCR spokeswoman said. "This one in particular had more detail than is usual in a music paper." Officials believe that at most, 5% of the scores would be affected, and students will not have to retake... READ ON

Let's say you've got a sheep and a goat (and a bioengineering lab) and want to have a little fun. Why not make a geep? Geeps are created in the lab by effectively mashing up fertilized embryos from sheep and goats, then implanting the result into sheep or goat mothers. The resulting animal isn't a hybrid, it's a chimera: an animal with two genetically distinct sets of cells inside it. Thus a geep looks like a sort of frankenpet, with patches of its body exhibiting furry goatlike features and others... READ ON

Violinist Gives Thank You Concert for Cabbies Violinist Philippe Quint took a cab home from the airport in New Jersey last month, and left his 285-year-old Stradivarius in the car. Cab driver Mohamed Khalil returned the $4 million instrument to Quint. As a "thank you," Quint performed a special lunchtime concert for about 200 cabbies in the parking lot at Newark Liberty International Airport. Artificial Beak for Bald... READ ON