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Reports on Phoenix, Arizona's completion of work on a medical laboratory building dedicated to genetic research. Construction cost; Description of the medical laboratory building built on a downtown area known as the Phoenix Biomedical Center at Copper Square; Efforts to bring jobs and economic momentum to an underused downtown; Design and construction of the building by DPR Construction Inc. of Redwood, California and the Smith Group architecture firm.

Reports on the unsatisfactory rating given to the University of California on its management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in January 2005. Safety and security lapses at the laboratory; Review of the handling of classified information at all laboratories affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy.

Reports that La Rae Quy, a spokeswoman for the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, has confirmed a search of the San Mateo, California, home of Victor Conte Jr., the founder of Balco, the laboratory center of a steroid scandal. Trial faced by Conte due to steroid-conspiracy charges; Reason for the search; Lawsuit involving Bill Romanowski, a former National Football League linebacker.

Reports on locations used as natural laboratories by automakers for road tests of new automobiles in extreme weather. Australian Outback; Death Valley California; Phoenix, Arizona; Upper Peninsula of Michigan; Thompson, Manitoba; Waiorau, New Zealand.

Reports that the McKinley Climatic Laboratory in Eglin Air Force Base in Florida provides a wide range of temperatures for product testing. Temperature of the refrigeration system; Test of the durability of the products of automakers and their parts suppliers; Assistance of Ford engineers in the development of electronic stability control systems.

Reports on the turnover of six containers of plutonium 238 by a retired physicist at a former Soviet laboratory, after reading a newspaper notice offering rewards for weapons in Russia.

Reports that four Los Alamos National Laboratory workers were fired and one will resign for their roles in a security and safety scandal in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Reports that U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has suspended all classified research work at all laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy. Background on the loss of computer disks that caused Abraham to issue the security advisory; Impact on the research activities of the agency; Inventory of data storage devices being conducted by the agency.

Reports on the suspension of 19 employees from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico by facility director, George Nanos, in relation to the two missing computer disks containing classified information. Willful disregard of rules presented by some workers; Investigatory leaves for 15 employees due to security violations; Accountability of the workers for the missing data.

Focuses on security lapses that shut down the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in July 2004. Deputy Energy Secretary Kyle E. McSlarrow's request to the National Nuclear Security Administration to call in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to help search for two computer disks holding classified data; Intention by the laboratory to call on employees to report colleagues who violate security; Former employees' reactions to the security lapses at the facility.

Reports that U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents combed laboratory suites at Fort Detrick, Maryland, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. Previous use of the laboratories for the nation's biological warfare defense program.

Reports that Representative Joe L. Barton, the congressman who visited Los Alamos National Laboratory to examine security lapses said that two missing computer disks containing classified information had probably been lost or misplaced but not stolen. Information related to experiments in the laboratory's weapons physics division; Espionage not yet ruled out.

Reports on the security lapses at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Disappearance of two computer disks of classified information.

Reports that researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories are looking for ways to convert glucose, a basic form of sugar, into energy. Abundance of glucose; Metabolism of glucose by the human body; Genetic engineering of enzymes that mimic other enzymes in the body.

The article features the participation of Mohammed AlQuraishi, a biologist at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, at the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction. AlQuraishi lost the competition to DeepMind, the artificial intelligence laboratory owned by Google's parent company. Derek Lowe, a drug discovery researcher, shared his views on whether machines will replace chemists.

The article offers information related to the opportunity for coronavirus vaccine researchers in Brazil to test vaccines due to chaotic response to the coronavirus in Brazil.

The article focuses on views of law professor Ganesh Sitaraman on his book "The Great Democracy" which makes the case for expansive democratic reform.

The article offers information on a new study which found that shore crabs can learn to navigate a lab-rat-style maze and remember it weeks later; and suggests that crabs are quite capable of remembering routes.

The article reports that the 44 chimpanzees remaining at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico were too ill to move for their transfer to a sanctuary, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The article reports on plans for making Governors Island, New York County a center for climate adaption research, commercialization and policy making and mentions governments taking lead on climate policy as preident Donald Trump administration pulls back.

The article reports on the concerns by scientists about the validity of the DNA analysis methods used at the DNA laboratory of New York City's chief medical examiner office wherein it processed DNA evidence supplied by both the New York Police and about 50 jurisdictions. Topics include the dismissal of one laboratory official for criticizing the DNA method according to a court testimony and a call for New York inspector general's office to investigate the use of the method in criminal cases.

A correction is presented about the decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency to reinstate the Russian drug-testing laboratory.

The article reports on the research laboratory of insurer FM Global located in Rhode Island which recreates the disaster damages as part of its efforts to test and develop technology aimed at helping businesses better prepare for natural disasters associated with climate change.

The article discusses a trend of accidents and mistakes at U.S. commercial, government, and academic research laboratories working with dangerous pathogens as of July 20, 2014. Topics addressed include a lack of government regulation of the labs; accidents at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Prevention (C.D.C.)'s labs; and incidents involving anthrax and flu pathogens.

An essay is presented on Brian Gordon, who created the 3-D Tennis Technologies, an advanced clinic for application and gathering of video and digital data to improve the swing movement of tennis players. It says the laboratory is bisected by a blue hitting wall with two oval golf nets, which will capture the balls. It mentions that Gordon is being helped by his intern Remi Ramos, who plans to rehabilitate her injured hip to attract the interest of college coaches.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles "They Promised Us Jet Packs" by Conor Dougherty in the July 24, 2016 issue and "Clearing the Cages but Maybe Not the Conscience" by David Gelles in the July 17, 2016 issue.

The article reports that the U.S. Army on January 15, 2016 issued a critique of the management and oversight of military laboratory at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah under brigadier general William E. King IV that mistakenly sent live anthrax to facilities around the world.

The article reports that scent making companies spend billions of dollars each year on research to find smell molecules, patent them and sell them. The patented molecules are called "captives," and they are essential to luring customers to buy the hundreds of perfumes introduced every year. The perfumes created by the companies Symrise of Holzminden, Germany, Givaudan of Geneva, Switzerland, International Flavors and Fragrances and Takasago International Corporation are discussed.

The article reports on the Strong Island Underground enterprise in New York which advertised on the Internet for those interested in purchasing steroids. U.S. agents found more than $6.5 million worth of steroids and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of laboratory equipment to change raw ingredients from China into usable form, according to Erin Mulvey, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. The steroids were placed in cartons for mail order to customers who paid in advance.

This article addresses the phenomena of virtual laboratories and presents a debate over their validity. Increasingly popular among university students, these computer programs are used as a means to conduct research through simulated scenarios. Proponents point to the program's economical and safety benefits, as well as its accessibility. Critics are concerned about students replacing actual laboratory research with a "limited" computer generated program.

Reports that the U.S. President George W. Bush administration is planning the government's first production of plutonium 238 since the cold war. Debate over the risks and benefits of the deadly material; Overview of the program at the Idaho National Laboratory, outside Idaho Falls, Idaho; How, in the past, plutonium has powered espionage devices; Comments of Timothy A. Frazier of the Department of Energy; Denials that any of the classified missions would involve nuclear arms, satellites or weapons in space; Fears that the production effort will threaten nearby ecosystems; Value of plutonium 238; Background on the government's use of plutonium 238. INSET: Up Close, a Plutonium Pellet And a Minor Slip of the Tongs.

Reports on the piece of evidence to the issue of the peddling of advanced nuclear technology by scientists at the secret Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Laboratories in Pakistan. Circulation of the sales brochure of the laboratory; Three-decade long project to build a nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium by Pakistan; Emergence of the country as the intellectual and trading center of a loose network of hidden nuclear proliferators.

Reports on the discovery by scientists of genetic fingerprints that may help determine which of many laboratories is likely the source of the virulent microbe used in the anthrax attacks in the U.S. Observation of genetic differences in preparation; Significance of the discovery for federal investigation; Status of the anthrax case.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Defense has sent live samples of anthrax to several laboratories by mistake.

The article reports on the grades of major research universities worldwide on the report card by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines that assessed how much their laboratories helped poor people including University of British Columbia and University of California.

The article reports on the suspension of three years issued by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to an accredited laboratory in Madrid, Spain that carries out doping tests.

The article focuses on 64 year-old doctor Robert Langer and his Langer Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It says that the Langer Lab is the leading laboratory which turns discoveries into a range of drug delivery systems and drugs. It mentions several companies which invested in Langer Laboratory including Polaris Venture Partners, Eisai Inc., and Momenta Pharmaceuticals.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experiences in space explorations to Mars with the Curiosity spacecraft.

Charles Darwin came to many of his ideas by observing the wild creatures of South America. The biologist Sinead Collins elaborates on his work by actually creating evolution in her laboratory at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Collins, 36, sets up experiments to uncover evolution's basic rules. She then uses the information to help work on solutions to contemporary environmental problems like global warming and marine acidification. We spoke for two hours at last winter's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia, and then again last month by telephone. An edited and condensed version of the conversations follows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

STONY BROOK, N.Y. -- The campus sits a few miles below the rim of Long Island's north shore, in a lush expanse of woodlands, bordering a sleepy hamlet of churches and creameries. For five decades, Stony Brook had quietly built its reputation here as a top research branch of the New York state university system. Modest recognition stemmed from nuclear physics labs and geometry classrooms. But recently, the university's name has traveled, after it has waded into high-level athletics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cathal Garvey's home laboratory in Cork, Ireland, is filled with makeshift equipment. His incubator for bacteria is an old Styrofoam shipping box with a heating mat and thermometer that he has modified into a thermostat. He uses a pressure cooker to sterilize instead of an autoclave. Some instruments are fashioned from coffee cans. In the burgeoning world of citizen science, where the ethos is closer to scout manual than peer-reviewed journal, Mr. Garvey, a 26-year-old geneticist who worked in a cancer research center for about four years after earning a graduate degree, is something of a hero. He is perhaps best known for inventing the DremelFuge, a small centrifuge that can be fabricated by a 3-D printer. His plans are freely available online, so anybody who has the desire and the resources to make one can do so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DENVER -- A wildfire that roared out of nowhere on Sunday in northern New Mexico prompted an evacuation of Los Alamos County on Monday, and by midafternoon had spread to the boundary of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the highly sensitive headquarters for United States military nuclear research. A laboratory spokesman, Kevin Roark, said the blaze, at the facility's southern edge, was still several miles from any essential structures on the 25,600-acre property. Mr. Roark said that nuclear and other hazardous materials had been placed in safe storage as a precaution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- A fast-moving wildfire has broken out in New Mexico and forced officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to close the site Monday as residents nearby evacuate their homes. The fire has grown to 3,500 acres, or 5.4 square miles, since it started at around 1 p.m. on Sunday about 12 miles southwest of the town of Los Alamos. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Le Poisson Rouge became a de facto laboratory for a scientist of sound on Tuesday evening when the International Contemporary Ensemble presented works by Nathan Davis as part of its ICElab residency at that Greenwich Village space. Mr. Davis -- whose works often incorporate electronics and sounds created by laptops, cellphones and other modern devices -- thinks about the soloist's musical idiosyncrasies and immerses himself in the performer's instrument when writing for a particular player. While composing ''On Speaking a Hundred Names'' for bassoon with live computer processing, for example, he carried the bassoon around with him and practiced on it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The quest by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to find a site for a second campus has prompted cities around the East Bay to go to great lengths to outshine one another. Alameda offered to donate 45 acres to the lab -- free. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An article on Nov. 11 about lax security in Ugandan government laboratories that house specimens of dangerous pathogens misstated the title and category of a book on the type of disease outbreak that experts fear could result from terrorist infiltration of such facilities. The book is titled ''The Hot Zone,'' not ''Hot Zone,'' and is a nonfiction thriller, not a novel. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. IN a basement laboratory at Harvard, Ashley Prince read from the instructions as her lab partner, Allan Jean-Baptiste, poured fruit nectar into a pot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

EAST ORANGE, N.J. -- Here is what a bridge over the digital divide looks like. On Thursday morning, 30 fifth graders in yellow-and-green uniforms tapped on keyboards in their gleaming new technology lab, careful not to pound the keys or touch the shiny screens. The first lesson was about how to take care of the computers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forget whether it was brig or brigantine. The archaeologists who are trying to decipher the 18th-century ship recovered this summer from an old landfill at the World Trade Center site had to agree first on whether they were looking at its bow or its stern. Only about half the vessel - 32 feet - survived the construction of a retaining wall roughly along the line of Washington Street, close to what was once the edge of the Hudson River. To unseasoned eyes, the fanlike array of ribs at one end of the mud-encased craft strongly suggested that it was the stern. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Marc Hauser's academic career was soaring when suddenly, three years ago, Harvard authorities raided his laboratory and confiscated computers and records. Dr. Hauser continued to publish and lecture widely until last week, while all the time researchers at Harvard and elsewhere who knew of the raid kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]