The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age. The Internet has brought forth an unprecedented flowering of news and information. But it has also ...

Engineers and biochemists have brought their skills together to make it possible for untrained users to confirm contamination in fluids using a biogel test that changes color in the presence of such ...

We have written before about what specific blood panels reveal and how vitamin deficiencies show up in your bloodwork. Those articles focused on what the numbers mean once you have them. But there is ...

In 1828, German chemist Friedrich Wöhler synthesized urea from inorganic compounds, a substance previously thought only ...

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I got an advance copy of Anil Ananthaswamy's forthcoming Through Two Doors at Once a while back, and while I was too busy with my own book to read it in time to blurb it, I did manage to finish it ...

HUMANKIND has created a new species for the first time. Not by building it from genes, as Craig Venter said he was planning to do last week (New Scientist, 30 November, p 12). And not by millions of ...

A teacher who wanted to shift from assessing compliance to assessing students’ thinking shares the tweaks she made in her ...

Detecting disease-causing bacteria just got easier, as a simple color change could revolutionize detection and improve food safety. Engineers and biochemists at McMaster university have brought their ...