Brown to run it back to rehab

Chris Brown is heading back to rehab for a court-ordered 90-day stay. The singer, who checked out of a rehab facility in Malibu last week after just 13 days, has been ordered back to rehab for the next three months by a Los Angeles judge after it was revealed that he was actually kicked out of the previous clinic for throwing a rock through his mother's windshield while she was visiting. Brown's mother urged him to remain in the care of the rehab center for an extended stay, but he didn't take her advice too well. Brown faced L.A. Superior Court Judge James Brandlin yesterday, and at the recommendation of the probation department, Brandlin ordered him to spend 90 days in a court-approved, live-in anger management program. I feel this could be a good thing for him. Also good is this: safer condoms will be one of the first products developed at the new National Graphene Institute in Manchester. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded scientists US$100000 to create stronger, thinner condoms from the new "wonder material". I'm sure it will be a long time before one of those condoms breaks during coitus. But alas, even graphene has a breaking point, for it is not Chuck Norris. For those who like it dry, however, the lotus leaf was thought to be the gold standard for staying dry in nature, but now a team from MIT in Boston say they have surpassed it with what is the "most waterproof material ever". This material is inspired by nasturtium leaves and butterfly wings. The new "super-hydrophobic" surface could keep clothes dry and stop aircraft engines icing over. By adding tiny ridges to a silicon surface, water will bounce off it 40% faster than the previous "limit". Similar ridges are found in nature on the wings of the Morpho butterfly and the veins of nasturtium leaves.