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Talk about heart-stopping news: Spending time in traffic may triple some people's risk of having a heart attack an hour later. That's what German researchers reported last October in the [...]

Dioxin and its chemical cousins are among the most deadly compounds on Earth. Spike a rat's water with 10 parts per billion--the equivalent of 7 teaspoons of dioxin dissolved in [...]

In August, residents of the dairy country of central Wisconsin received an unusual invitation from their local health care provider: an opportunity to donate their DNA for research. If they [...]

Ever since it was blamed for massive fish kills in estuaries in the eastern United States a decade ago, a tiny one-celled organism known as Pfiesteria piscicida has fascinated and [...]

From 12 to 17 February, some 5400 people descended on Philadelphia for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, which publishes Science), celebrating its [...]

Nine years ago, epidemiologist Joel Schwartz stumbled across a disturbing pattern of death. Schwartz, then at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), noted that when soot levels in the air of [...]

While Sue Rosser was head of women's programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) last year, she got a series of concerned telephone calls. 'Are you still in business?' worried [...]

Imagine one of your car's headlights winks out, but instead of simply replacing the bulb, you attach a third headlight. That's typically how genetic engineering works today. When molecular biologists [...]

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -- On the first full day in his lab after 10 weeks of hurricane-forced exile, Tulane University cancer researcher Matt Burow looks on with dismay as his [...]

The smiling, dark-haired woman chatting with Katie Couric on NBC's popular Today show explains why she wants to know the sex of her third baby just 7 weeks into her [...]

In 1989, a 39-year-old woman blacked out while she and her husband were eating dinner. He rushed her to the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where tests showed that [...]

Patricia Kiley is wondering whether to hop on the bandwagon. As a young microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Kiley is making a name for herself studying some of [...]

At a hotel meeting room outside Quebec last March, 35 health officials and others from the world's seven leading industrialized countries and Mexico passed around a vial of bitter-tasting white [...]

The rebel insurgency that toppled Haiti's government earlier this year was, on the surface, simply the latest turn in a bloody cycle of repression and reaction. But deeper down, the [...], Soil degradation in all its nefarious forms is not a prelude to mass starvation, as analysts once feared. Nevertheless, it is eroding crop yields and contributing to malnourishment in many corners of the globe

Thirteen years ago, Donna Mergler and her team had good reason to wonder about the health of workers in a manganese alloy plant in a small town called Beauharnois, near [...]

MARGUERITE BAY, ANTARCTICA -- As freezing rain pelts the deck of the RRS James Clark Ross, half a dozen men gather around as a winch hauls a 6-meter-tall, spindly steel [...]

Forester Matt Delaney always dreamed of working in the tropics, so when he was asked to help measure carbon stored in 634,000 hectares of humid forest in Bolivia, he jumped [...]

Representatives from more than 160 countries will gather in Kyoto, Japan, during the first 2 weeks of December to ratify a treaty regulating the emission of greenhouse gases. But already, [...]

The Alabama beach mouse was listed as endangered in 1985, and within 2 years the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) had put a plan in place to protect it. [...]

SEATTLE--Over 5000 people turned out for the Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, which publishes Science), held 13 to 18 [...]

The connection between a contract for building highway guardrails in Colorado and efforts to encourage diversity in science may not seem obvious, but it's worrying educators. The reason: The contract [...]