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This is the moment a teenager was hit in the face by an exploding watermelon during a science experiment gone wrong. Ellice Nisbet, 16, from Sunnyvale, California, was in the garden of her home as she ...

Harry Whittaker departs the Old Bailey in central London (Jonathan Brady/PA) A “nerdy” science buff claimed to have caused an explosion while carrying out experiments in his shed, then blamed a ...

A “nerdy” science buff claimed to have caused an explosion while carrying out experiments in his shed, then blamed a life-threatening allergic reaction on his mother’s potpourri, a court has heard.