The problem is more troubling when the effects of scientific development are legal or sociological. In such cases, developers are even less able to anticipate the consequences, since they lie beyond ...

Advances in DNA technology have made it easier to identify remains from decades-old cases. Concetta Callahan talks to Pima County's chief medical examiner about how that has affected his work.

When someone says the word embryo, what do you think of? Probably that picture you’ve seen a thousand times on a thousand different news articles: a translucent orb swelling with cytoplasm being ...

AMES, Iowa – Two Iowa State University researchers have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The association is honoring 702 new fellows from around ...

It's the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred ...

Science brought me to Michigan. Four years ago, I moved here to join MSU scientists studying plants in so many different ways, from sequencing DNA to measuring their traits in the field. Now, I study ...