There is a myth that exists in the world of high fashion — let us call it the "corduroy conspiracy" — and Chris Lindland is on a mission to break it wide open. Sideways.

If you’re a suburban cowboy hankering to raise a herd and short on ranchland, mini-cattle may be for you.

According to a study to be published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulation Physiology, a typical course of hyperbaric oxygen treatments increases by eight-fold the number of stem cells circulating in a patient’s body. Stem cells, also called progenitor cells are crucial to injury repair.

According to the LA Times, Google is set to unveil its own low-price personal computer that runs on an operating system created by Google.

Hollywood loves happy endings and come-from-behind triumphs, but it got neither in 2005.  Last year marked the lowest for ticket sales since 2001, and attendance continued a three-year slide.

Thomas Frey:  2005 was defined by Google, iPods, the “World is Flat”, natural disasters, blogs, podcasting, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and a dramatic influx of new technologies designed to give us freedom and control of our lives. But 2006 will feel quite different as we shift into a new gear.  Here are some of the […]

Until just three months ago, life in this humble village without electricity would come to a grinding halt after sunset. Inside his mud-and-clay home, Ganpat Jadhav’s three children used to study in the dim, smoky glow of a kerosene lamp. And when their monthly fuel quota of four liters dried up in just a fortnight, […]

Spanish scientists working with mice have found that sperm contaminated with bacteria before in vitro fertilization can pick up genetic material.

January may be the month to make a resolution to lose weight, but March is when most people actually try to follow through on it, a new survey finds.

Wall Street Journal:  Less than a year ago, we labeled the current U.S. expansion the "Rodney Dangerfield economy"–because it "gets no respect." Ten months later our now $12.5 trillion economy has only maintained its strength even as it still gets disparaged in the media, which continues to fret about the fragility of what has undeniably […]