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Safety in academic and other nonindustrial chemical research laboratories will be the focus of a yearlong investigation by a National Academy of Sciences committee, which held its first meeting last week in Washington, D.C. The study will consider how safe lab practices can be promoted in academic and government labs, explained H. Holden Thorp, ... (more)

A new A 23million research unit is announced today, that will exploit the latest advances in genetics to improve understanding of how changes to lifestyle or environment, as well as pharmacological interventions, can reduce the risk of disease.

ERBA products are employed in tests and analyses related to autoimmune and infectious diseases, diabetes and blood chemistry.

Video Caption: This JPL video shows the complicated choreography to get drill samples to Curiosity's instruments as she prepares for 2nd drilling at "Cumberland." See where "Cumberland" is located in our panoramic photo mosaic below.

A new study shows how complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth.

With obesity reaching epidemic levels in some parts of the world, scientists have only begun to understand why it is such a persistent condition.

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In April, National Geographic News published a story about the letter in which scientist Francis Crick described DNA to his 12-year-old son.

The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature, raises the tantalizing possibility that ancient life might be found deep underground not only within Earth , but in similar oases that may exist on Mars , the scientists who studied the water said.

The roots of Longmont's Zometool date back decades, but the company has undergone a transformation in recent years.

President Mitch Daniels isn’t the only one at Purdue University on a quest to save money at the West Lafayette campus.

Discovery: The element was discovered by Sir William Ramsay, a Scottish chemist, and Morris M. Travers, an English chemist, in 1898.

With nary a 90-degree angle anywhere, a stone feature wall and other accessories she built herself, plus ceiling to floor windows overlooking Edmonton's river valley, Maegan Lukian's Edmonton condo is one of a kind.

NASA's first asteroid sample return mission took a step closer to reality on Wednesday, as the OSIRIS-REx project was cleared for development and testing.

The trial of a man accused of picking up packages of a designer drug shipped to D'Iberville from China has been delayed while his attorney consults an expert in chemistry.

When the Europeans discovered the "New World", they infamously brought with them diseases which that world had never before encountered.

We have an oil problem on our hands, and it has nothing to do with renewable energy and carbon emissions.

The world's oceans contain nearly a thousand times as much uranium as conventional reserves, and researchers have spent decades trying to develop an efficient way to extract it.

Ancient ivory carvings made by Phoenician artists some 3,000 years ago have long hidden a secret, even while being openly displayed in museums around the world: The sculptures were originally painted with colorful pigments, and some were decorated with gold.

The preservation of food at home is a major concern for all consumers. A group of researchers from INRA in Avignon, France, have conducted a study into tomato aroma with the aim of finding the optimum conditions for storage.