The Airplane Hostel What: The latest budget hotel is a hostel built inside a jumbo aircraft.

The Dirt: The Swedish rang in the New Year with the addition of a new hospitality offering at Stockholm Arlanda Airport, the Jumbo Hostel, a hostel built inside a Boeing 747-200 jumbo jet. The official opening on January 15, 2009, came years after the jet was first grounded in November 2002. Accommodations cater to trend [...]

Science, Health & Recalls Week of April 7

Scientists at Newcastle University created the U.K.’s first part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos, the BBC reports. The embryos survived up to three days. Medical groups argue the work could help find treatments for diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Identigene, a unit of the Sorenson Genomics laboratory in Salt Lake City, announced the DNA Paternity Test Collection Kit [...]