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ABOARD THE ATLANTIS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC -- The dazzling red squid drifted into the submarine's spotlight like some psychedelic phantom, its supple tentacles pulsing against the cold, black sea. [...]

Early this month, one of the world's most powerful ice breakers reached the U+S. research station at McMurdo Bay after smashing its way through the Antarctic ice pack. It's a [...]

STOLLSTEIMER CREEK, COLORADO -- 'Don't be a pin-headed snarf.... Read the river!' Dave Rosgen booms as he sloshes through shin-deep water, a swaying surveying rod clutched in one hand and [...]

Daniel Pauly still remembers his youthful encounter 30 years ago with what he calls 'the living papers.' A graduate student in Germany, Pauly watched the field's royalty with awe at [...]

FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA--It's hard to resist comparing forest ecologist Wally Covington to the old-growth ponderosa pines that tower above this bustling mountain town. Both are tall and burly, with rugged skins [...]

When computer scientist Jennifer Weller took a job at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute in Blacksburg last year, she was eager to start work on new 'open source' genome-sifting software that [...]

Some scientists worry that eye-catching efforts to rescue stranded marine mammals may detract from less glamorous--and smellier--research ASSATEAGUE ISLAND, VIRGINIA--The baby whale wasn't fast enough to escape the ship's giant [...]

U.S. scientists are asking the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pour $281 million into a hole in the ground. A new research coalition last week submitted a proposal to NSF [...]

Why won't a $2.8 billion increase buy any more individual grants next year? The answer is keeping researchers and NIH officials up at night For years the U.S. biomedical community [...]

TOOLS Mining the Plasmodium Genome The malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, has for decades frustrated researchers trying to understand everything from its biochemistry to the function of its genes. A new [...]

The National Ignition Facility is supposed to allow weapons makers to preserve the nuclear arsenal--and do nifty fusion science, too. But a new report that examines its troubled past also [...]

Researchers are fawning over improved images from the new Landsat 7 satellite. But they also worry that there may not be a suitable successor to the government-built spacecraft, Last month a small group of earth scientists got their first detailed look at data from a $700 million U.S. earth-monitoring satellite. It was a knockout. Landsat 7, launched in [...]

Scientists around the world take on a grand challenge to dramatize the need for more marine research J. Frederick Grassle believes in the power of numbers. A marine biologist at [...]

A wave of announcements last week lifted the spirits of marine conservationists and researchers. Standing on a sun-dappled Virginia beach, President Bill Clinton on 26 May ordered federal agencies to [...]

The world's largest laser project will end up costing almost twice as much as originally estimated. Last week, Department of Energy (DOE) officials publicly outlined several options for rescuing the [...]

Challenged by a White House committee to change its ways, the National Science Foundation is looking for far-out ideas in computer science 'Excellent,' raved one reviewer about a preproposal from [...]

Researchers lost a major tool for probing the structure of matter last week when Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that he will permanently close the mothballed High Flux Beam Reactor [...]

A 236-year-old approach to statistics is making a comeback, as its ability to factor in hunches as well as hard data finds applications from pharmaceuticals to fisheries After 15 years, [...]

Researchers are gaining greater respect for a bird's ability to follow its nose, a skill that may help it find food or navigate over long distances It turns out Toucan [...]

The managers of a giant laser project have proposed drastically shrinking the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to curb rising costs, a step that could reduce its chances of achieving an [...]

Halfway through its construction, the world's largest laser faces management turmoil and technical problems. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Bill Richardson last week ordered a major shake-up at the National [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is reconsidering a grant that critics say will fund 'cold fusion' experiments. DOE officials this week announced that a special review panel will take [...]

Take shelter, a political nuclear war is about to resume. An increasingly fiery debate over proposed new funding for U.S. nuclear weapons research and testing is expected to heat up [...]

Deciding who will go down in history as Alvin's last crew may be the biggest issue still on the table now that the U.S. government has decided to retire its [...]

'There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea,' the 19th century poet James Russell Lowell once grumbled after a voyage far from familiar landmarks. But the bored bard might [...]

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS -- When academic scientists Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer successfully spliced a functioning foreign gene into a bacterium in 1973, the discovery helped launch the biotechnology revolution--and [...]

Like the mythical phoenix, a once-dead fusion energy project this week rose from the ashes to become the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) highest scientific priority. The $5 billion International [...]

Will U.S. scientists soon have to ask the government for permission to perform certain potentially dangerous biological experiments? That's the question swirling around lab benches in the wake of a [...]

The biodefense bandwagon is rolling. The U.S. government last week awarded eight lead institutions grants totaling $350 million over the next 5 years to establish collaborative research centers that will [...]