Science

This past week, on a day marked by occasional spitting rain and overcast skies, nearly four dozen Butler Junior High School students traveled to Thorn Creek in Butler County. Unlike anglers who go to the water looking for trout, they were taking their...

A 50-foot-wide circular electromagnet — so delicate that tilting it just a few degrees would destroy it — must make a four-week journey this summer off the U.S. coast and up a river, before inching its way by road to a new home at Fermilab...

It isn't the typical water cooler chat: discussion of evolution, Christian creationism and other existential quandaries. Local chaplain Dane Cramer and Somerset Area High School chemistry teacher Scott Dunlap sat down this week to hash out the...

What happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold...

It took Matthew Huggins 10 years to earn a degree from Northern Essex Community College. There was no lack of effort on his part, but when you can't speak and are unable to write or type with your hands, things take time. "It was one click of the chin...

Austin rocks, President Barack Obama indicated during his May 9 swing through the area, thanks in great part to its technology-related businesses. After listing plans by Apple, Visa and General Motors to add jobs in Austin, Obama told students and...

WASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...

"Pups!" Mike Neri's voice echoed through a suburban forest preserve, announcing his find. He was quickly joined by fellow wildlife biologists who had been combing the underbrush looking for a coyote den. They found Neri scrambling though an ancient junk...

Four days after her April 27 breast reconstruction, the third and final surgery aimed at sparing her an early death from breast cancer, Angelina Jolie was in good spirits at home. Upon paying a house call, her surgeon, Dr. Kristi Funk of the Pink...

It was seconds after taking the stage that 26-year-old Elese Wade was choking back tears. “I’ve had sleepless nights, tear-filled days and my finances stretched to the limit. I can honestly say that being finished now feels so good,”...

There were girls flying paper airplanes in the hallways, sending marbles down roller-coaster tracks they built and controlling a humongous robot while having fun all day Saturday. This and a lot more was happening on the University of South Florida...

Conard High senior Margaret George knew she wanted to be a Gates Millennium Scholar (GMS) when her neighbor and longtime friend Jennifer Huynh (Conard 2012) achieved the status last Spring. "The buzz surrounding Jen's accomplishment was so exciting! That'...