(Photo: 豊瀬源一)Scholar Nicholas S. Anderson...  ...her at temples and place their broken or worn-out needles into tofu: At the end of the New Year’s fes...  ...at Buddhist temples with their worn-out pins and needles to offer them up in large blocks of tofu or jelly...

Hate getting shots at the doctor? Take heart: scie...  ...Take heart: scientists are working on microscopic needles that don't hurt. First up, vaccines:Microneedle p...  ...of a postage stamp and hold hundreds of miniscule needles , each less than a millimeter long. They feel &quo...