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Rampant smuggling of Australian rock lobsters into mainland China is a national security threat, Hong Kong's new customs chief said on Thursday (Oct 21), as she vowed to crack down on the trade. Lobsters are one of a number of products from Australia that China has restricted imports of as relations between the countries plunged. But they remain a prized and much sought-after delicacy in mainland China. Imports of Australian rock lobsters to Hong Kong - which maintains no restrictions on the crustaceans - have since skyrocketed, with suspicions that the vast majority end up on mainland tables. Louise Ho...

MIT researchers say that lobsters could offer a solution to the problem plaguing most modern body armors: the more mobility an armor offers, the less it protects the wearer’s body. Guo told MIT News that the idea for developing body armor inspired by lobsters arrived while he was eating one and noticed that the transparent membrane on the animal’s belly was difficult to chew. Unlike the crustacean’s bone-like outer shell, the animal’s softer tissues remained a mystery, he said. Once researchers began to dissect those tissues, they made a surprising discovery. Making significant cuts into the membrane didn’t affect the...

No doubt the casino was steamed. Ninety-one lobsters had somehow walked out of the kitchen at Bally's Atlantic City on Thursday. Apparently they left inside a backpack and tucked inside a man's clothes, according to reports. Good thing for him those lobsters were frozen. Nobody stuffs live lobsters inside a jacket or pants. The alleged perp aroused suspicion for a few reasons. First, the overly bulky clothing. Second, he was walking very slowly, police told the Atlantic City Press. Third, kitchens are off-limits to the public, so an officer watching surveillance cameras noticed. Soon the suspect found himself trapped, along...

I am thinking that because my mother is Catholic and my father is Jewish, that it should be okay for me to eat lobster as long as it is boiled in holy water. Do you agree with this?