Scientists Find the Oldest Living Animal and Kills It

A group of British marine biologists from Bangor University in Wales found a special clam while researching the waters of north Iceland. After they cut through the shell and killed it, they counted the growth rings and found that it was 405 to 410 years old. The clam belonged to the Artica Islandica species.

California College Uses Roaches to Attract Students

The college UC Riverside in California is using a cockroach petting zoo display to try to attract students and parents to an upcoming recruitment fair. The display will have several species of cockroaches and will include the Madagascar hissing cockroach. The fair is mainly for high school students that are interested in careers as science teachers and engineers.

Woman Arrested Wearing Fake Bomb at Airport

In Boston a woman, named Star Simpson, was arrested at gunpoint after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a fake bomb strapped to her chest. The fake bomb was made out of a computer circuit board, wiring, and Play-Doh putty.

A Massachusetts Port Authority official notified the police and troopers tracked Simpson down outside of Terminal C. She was arrested and it was determined the bomb was fake. Simpson is a 19 year old sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Study Says Video Games Cause Lower Grades

A recent study has show that video-game systems in dorms cause students to study less and have lower grade-point averages. A study done at the University of Western Ontario found that video-game systems in the dorms led to 40 minutes less time of studying and GPAs 0.241 points lower than average. The students participating in the study tracked their studying, sleeping, partying, working, gaming, and other activities. In the end they found that more studying equals higher grades.

Student Tasered at John Kerry Speech

Watch the video of a student that was tasered at a John Kerry speech. Click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAVvlyVbag

A College Application Causes Bomb Scare

It is reported that on Friday emergency crews had to evacuate and Eastern Illinois University building after a campus postal carrier found a package which had no return address, was poorly written with many misspellings and addressed to the university. There was some tape over the package and it had a rather strange appearance.

The package looked strange enough that the police called the bomb squad. Explosives investigators x-rayed the package and blocked off the street before they noticed that the package only contained an application to the school. They wouldn't say if the bomb scare would affect the person's chances for admission to the school but it would be processed like the rest of the applications.