A novelty company in Snodnonia, north Wales has been awarded a $38,000 Millennium Award to convert sheep droppings into greeting cards and gift items. The BBC reports that Creative Paper Wales was awarded the contract for its Sheep Poo Paper project. The company will collect droppings from surrounding mountains in the region then sterilize it using pressure cookers and recover the washed and undigested fibers.

A 28-year-old environmentalist from Machynllet, Powys in England, is planning on traveling some 9,770 miles by land to be a bridesmaid at a wedding in Australia because she does not want to contribute to air pollution by flying. Barbara Haddrill said the trip would take her six weeks to accomplish at a cost of $3,800.

Researchers in Bristol said soldiers of the future could use a special suit with features like "Spiderman" that would allow them to walk up sheer surfaces and even stick to the ceiling. Dr. Jeff Sargent, research physicist at BAE System's Advance Technology Center in Bristol said, "We wanted to mimic this ability. "

Students in Japan have taken to the sky in quite an unlikely contraption. A group of students from the Tokyo Institute of Technology flew in a plane powered only by household batteries.

Stanford University School of Medicine doctors are testing sponges embedded with radio frequency identification tags that will alert the doctor if left inside of a surgical site. A combination of the tags and other techniques may be used in the future to count instruments and sponges before and after an operation. The sponges were implanted with 20 millimeters or about 0. 8 of an inch-sized chips. The size was deemed too large and would need to be reduced for sponges and surgical instruments.