Woman on The Run After She Married So Many Men Then Disappear With All Their Money

A young runaway bride from Kerala, India, is being chased by police after leaving countless men with broken hearts and empty pockets.
Shahanaz, believed to be 33, has allegedly married over a dozen men in the last few years.

Though some reports claimed she has 'married' over 50 times, officials claim that only 15 have surfaced.
Shahanaz first married approximately 11 years ago to a man named Siddique, with whom she had a child.
However, her marriage-spree only came to light when two of her husbands approached the Chennai Police and follow up complaints were made by several other victims.
A total of seven formal complaints have now been made against her but it is possible many more embarrassed victims exist.
The first to submit a complaint was a Manikandan, 24, who works at a car showroom.
Shahanaz told him she was in search of a man that had cheated on her friend after promising to marry her.
According to the Indian Express, the two spoke many times over the phone and soon became close.

She told him that she was orphaned early in life and claimed to be an advocate at the Madras High Court. She also said that she was studying for civil service examinations.
The two got married in April without the approval of Manikandan’s parents.
Two months later, Shahanaz convinced Manikandan that she needed to stay in a women’s hostel so that she could prepare for civil service.
Manikandan claimed he sold the jewels he had bought for the wedding so that Shahanaz had some money to take with her when she left.
Two weeks later, she went missing from the hostel and is yet to be traced.
As the city police started probing the case, another person, Prasanna, a district level football player, came forward saying he too had married her some years ago.
Once again she cited civil service preparations as a reason to move into a hostel and then disappeared with his valuables

According to Prasanna, there was an incident when another person claimed that Shahanaz was his wife and approached the police.
The inspector at the women's police station questioned both parties, but allowed Shahanaz to go with Prasanna after the woman told the officials that the other person, Suresh, was a just a friend while Prasanna was her husband.
The couple also produced a photo album of their marriage to strengthen their claim.
Police have now found out that Shahanaz has also married others including: a Rajesh, a Chandrababu and a Saravanan. More names are still emerging.
Police are now pursuing the thief and they suspect she may have been involved in other criminal activities as well. 

Source: Mail Online

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Your Mobile Phone May One Day Be Powered By This The Bacteria-eating Virus

Bioengineers believe they can harness the properties of a virus known as M13 batteriophage to generate electricity

Countless scientists have mastered how to extract power from bacteria in the search for eco-friendly energy.
But they've now gone one step further and figured out how to harness energy from a virus that eats bacteria.
A team at the University of California, Berkeley has discovered how to generate electricity from a virus known as M13 bacteriophage.

The virus possesses a property known as piezoelectricity, which means it can translate mechanical energy into electrical energy.
The researchers believe the discovery could one day pave the way for mobile phones that can be charged while you walk and replace the toxic piezoelectric elements already used in mobile phones.

Shake to charge: The discovery could lead to phones powered using a bacteria eating virus

Most mobile phone microphones are piezoelectric because they need to convert energy from sound waves into electrical output that can be transmitted and then translated back into sound waves at the other end of the line. 
These piezoelectric components are made out of heavy, toxic metals such as lead and cadmium, according to bioengineer Seung-Wuk Lee.
However, many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids are also piezoelectric.

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M13 bacteriophage has the ability to generate electricity when compressed but lacks the toxicity of the traditional elements.
Lee and his colleagues found that the pencil-shaped M13 is potentially a perfect energy source because the virus is not harmful to humans. 

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The team found the virus could provide 25% of the power produced by a AAA battery

It is also cheap and easy to make to the extent that scientists can get trillions of viruses from a single flask of infected bacteria.
The shape of the virus is important because M13 can be easily assembled into thin sheets.
To improve the electricity generating power of M13, Lee's team tweaked the amino acid content of the virus's outer protein coat by adding four negatively charged glutamate molecules.
The team stacked sheets of viruses on top of one another to amplify the piezoelectric effect.
The scientists found that when they attached a one square centimetre virus film to a pair of gold electroodes and pressed firmly on one of those electrodes, the film produced enough electricity to light up a liquid crystal display of the number '1'.
The result was 400 millivolts of power, or about one quarter the energy of a AAA battery.
Lee believes this shows that biomaterial piezoelectrics are feasible.
'This will bring a lot of excitement to the field,' says Zhong Lin Wang, an engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in the study.
'By utilising the properties of these biomaterials, we can find unique applications in the future.'

Possible devices include a pacemaker powered by the beating of one's heart

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