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There is amazing news for tech-saints Australian researchers have combined art and science to make dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to ‘grow’ slimy dresses from wine and beer

Somebody once said to me, "You archaeologists don't really know anything, do you? I mean, it's just guesses, right?". Well, sometimes I do despair about archaeology as a science. Can we actually know anything about what life was like for people in the deep past? Are we doing science at all or just deluding ourselves?

Many of the nation's most promising, young scientific minds competed for $530,000 in scholarships in Washington, D.C. this week at the Intel Science Talent Search, often considered the "Junior Nobel Prize" for high school students.

A study by Rockefeller University scientists shows that embryonic stem cells implanted in the brain appear to develop into fully differentiated granule neurons, the most plentiful neuron in the cerebellum. The findings were reported the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The so-called "fluoride" added to public water systems isn't really fluoride. It's a toxic waste from coal plants or industrial chemical processors known as fluorosilicic acid. "Fluoride" is simply a code name for the chemical.Today's water fluoridation laws are based entirely on junk science and power politics ...