Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device
by Naaman Zhou from on (#51E6H)
Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face
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An Australian astrophysicist has been admitted to hospital after getting four magnets stuck up his nose in an attempt to invent a device that stops people touching their faces during the coronavirus outbreak.
Dr Daniel Reardon, a research fellow at Melbourne's Swinburne University, was building a necklace that sounds an alarm on facial contact, when the mishap occurred on Thursday night.
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