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Trace levels of arsenic in drinking water increase a person's risk of developing cancer, according to a report from the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences. “People drinking water containing just one part per billion of arsenic have an increased risk of developing bladder or lung cancer of one in 1,000,” reports New Scientist magazine.

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

"A forum post on German site Effizienzgurus, has revealed a variety of CPU code-names, and their related speed and thermal specifications, for the next generation of DAAMIT processors."

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.