Researchers have used an electrical current to orchestrate the flow of a group of cells, an achievement that could establish the basis for more controlled forms of tissue engineering and for potential applications such as "smart bandages" that use electrical stimulation to help heal wounds.In the experiments, the>

Infinity was invented to account for the possibility that in a never-ending universe, anything can happen. Life on other Earth-like planets, for example, is possible in an infinite universe, but not probable, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia. The mathematical model produced by Prof>

If you were a blonde girl or boy captured in a raid a few hundred years ago, you were an exotic luxury item so valuable it was worthwhile to transport you to far-away markets in Asia.Slave-trading was so common the routes stretched from Finland, the Russian Karelia and the Baltic Countries all the way to the>

You likely knew that professional boxing causes brain damage but a new study shows it is more than just an assumption, even about amateurs. Researchers analyzing 30 top-level Swedish boxers found changes in brain fluids after bouts, which indicates nerve cell damage. It has been debated for quite some time whether>

What do anti-science groups do that science never seems to do?Trot out naked women. PETA - constantly, Greenpeace - sure, using cheescake to raise money for their corporate agenda is nothing new for groups that have neither data nor reason nor ethics.But Babes Against Biotech is not even hiding behind a pretense of>

Due to the use of her celebrity status to promote potentially dangerouschelation therapy as a "cure" for autism, we eventually had to knockher off the FOI To Do List.   On Monday, we rucked over a Wired Magazine article claiming that Playboy's>