YOU’RE WATCHING WCVB NEWSCENTER 5 AT 530. A GROUNDBREAKING TODAY FOR A NEW CRIME LAB IN MASSACHUSETTS. STATE POLICE COLONEL JEFFREY NOBLE AND OTHER OFFICIALS WERE ON HAND FOR THE CEREMONY IN ...

This new, low-cost method of repairing gullies and restoring land is working out well in Ethiopia. Courtesy Rediet Girma. Nearly a quarter of the land in Ethiopia is degraded. It has lost its quality ...

It was one of the more iconic scenes in baseball moviedom. Lou Brown tells his troops that Rachel Phelps (the owner) does not want them to win. In order to win the division they will need to win 32 ...

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Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

MADISON, Wis. — A 41-year-old man is accused of using chemicals from a UW-Madison lab to poison his coworker, according to a criminal complaint. Makoto Kuroda faces charges of second-degree recklessly ...

I remember watching my 3-year-old niece, Avi, try to organize her toy cars. She wasn't counting them yet, but she would say, “This one goes near the red one,” and “I want more cars here!” At the time, ...

Finding the right bed sheets that are soft, breathable, stay put on your bed, and hold up to regular wear and washing is an exhausting endeavor. But, as a fiber scientist in the Good Housekeeping ...

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A University of Michigan study found that common nitrile and ...

Scientists have used stem cells to make bioengineered oesophagi that they successfully implanted into pigs, restoring the animals’ ability to swallow and eat. Similar lab-grown structures could be ...