There are countless things to be nervous about when going under the knife, and waking up with foreign objects inside you should never be one of them. Patients are often re-assured that they are in ...

From water bottles to wobble bubbles to a giant exercise ball, we inflated 20 objects until they hit their breaking point. PSI skyrocketed and the failures got more violent round after round. Rubber ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.

Doctors have had to remove 3,500 objects just this year, costing the NHS roughly £340,000 a year (Picture: Getty) Kinky Brits hospitalised for sticking objects up their bum have cost the NHS more than ...