This week, a puppet used in the original 1950s BBC series fetched more than 10 times its estimated sale price at auction.
"Life is sweep," says Ry Ter
The fruit are rich in an antioxidant pigment called anthocyanin which is thought to have anti-cancer properties.
The tomatoes were created by incorporating genes from the snapdragon flower, which is high in anthocyanin.
The study, published in Nature Biotechnology, found mice who ate the tomatoes lived longer.
The British team that holds the land speed record is planning to go even faster.
RAF pilot Andy Green intends to get behind the wheel of a car that is capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Known as Bloodhound, the new car will be powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine.
"He'll be travelling at the speed of Hound," says Ry Ter.
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"Final curtains for the PASTORIA," says Ry Ter.
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Iran is attempting to assemble the world's largest ostrich sandwich.
Promoting Iran's ostrich farming business at a food festival in Tehran, about 1,500 cooks will use 1,000kg (2,200lbs) of ostrich meat to make the sandwich. Perhaps enough to earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
"Fast food." Says Ry Ter.
Two of the UK's worst aquatic invasive species are set to meet.
Scientists say the non-native crayfish and the fierce Chinese mitten crab's habitats are beginning to overlap.
"My money's on the Chinese Mitten Crab," says Ry Ter. "It's my understanding that it's a dogfish eat dogfish world under the surface of the UK waterways. And in that world, they are the claw."
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Exotic species of spiders are making their homes in the UK, scientists say.
"Arachcribs?" Says Ry Ter.
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Japanese knotweed was introduced to the UK as an ornamental plant.
Since then it has plagued the environment.
Now a natural predator has been identified. Plans have been submitted to the government for approval to use the predator to control the weed.
"Ornamental," says Ry Ter.
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Harvard and Yale are in first and second places, with Cambridge and Oxford in third and fourth.
"Oxfourth?" says Ry Ter.
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A British woman, together with two other skydivers, became the first yesterday to freefall at extreme altitude through the skies above Mount Everest.
“It was amazing.” Said Holly Budge.
A 50kg solid gold statue of model Kate Moss has been unveiled at the British Museum, in London.
The £1.5m sculpture, entitled Siren, is by artist Marc Quinn and is one of several contemporary sculptures in the exhibition Statuephilia.
"Kate Modern," says Ry Ter
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