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Small businesses turned an old Chicago meatpacking plant into a living experiment in sustainable food, and they are thriving
The Plant belonged to one of Chicago's dirtiest industries. Now it's home to a beekeeper, a coffee roaster, indoor farms, and algae laboratories.
A college janitor turned off a freezer in a lab to silence 'annoying alarms,' but destroyed $1 million in scientific research in the process, a lawsuit claims
A janitor wiped out over 20 years of scientific research that had the "potential to be groundbreaking," and were stored in a super cold freezer.
Omicron spread about 70 times quicker than Delta in human bronchial samples, a lab study found
Scientists at the University of Hong Kong compared Omicron's behavior in tissue samples to that of Delta and another type of the coronavirus.
A Chinese virologist claimed the coronavirus was 'intentionally' released. Turns out, she works for a group led by Steve Bannon.
A strange paper claims China engineered and released the coronavirus. Its authors work for a group once led by the former Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
The US is in the middle of another coronavirus testing crisis — on a far larger scale than before
Coronavirus testing sites and laboratories across the US are reaching capacity. Hospitals may soon follow.
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How we know the COVID-19 coronavirus wasn't made in a lab
A major COVID-19 myth is that it was man-made in a lab. But by using the virus' genetic sequence scientists have been able to debunk it.
An unsubstantiated theory suggests the coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab — here are the facts
The coronavirus probably did not jump from animals to people at a wet market in Wuhan as initially thought. But there's no evidence of a lab leak.
Lab-testing giant Quest Diagnostics just announced a data breach that could impact 11.9 million patients
The breach occurred at one of Quest's billing collections vendors, the American Medical Collection Agency, or AMCA.
Senator pushing to move chimps out of labs to easy retirement
In 2015, the National Institutes of Health announced that it will end its chimp research program, but there are still animals living at the research facilities. Senator Bill Cassidy wants to push for an amendment that will speed up the transition of chimps from laboratories to sanctuaries.
This enormous national lab helped give birth to the nuclear age — here's what's going on inside now
The DOE's Argonne National Laboratory is conducting cutting-edge research, from oil-soaking sponges to the next generation of batteries.
Anthony Bourdain slams fake meat: ‘I see it as the enemy'
Artificial meat is antithetical to everything that Anthony Bourdain believes in.
Most forensic science is bogus
The discipline has serious problems that require urgent attention.
Here's how scientists grow perfect diamonds in the lab
Photos from a Singapore diamond lab reveal how it bakes up batches of stunning and real diamond gems in 10 to 12 weeks using high-tech plasma ovens.
This man is repurposing the building blocks of chemistry — and it could be the future of medicine
Phil Baran, a professor of chemistry, refers to the work that he does with the students and postdocs at his laboratory as “translational chemistry.”
One lab tech is accused of doing something that could jeopardize almost 8,000 criminal cases
A lab tech was caught recording results of a sample without having properly analyzing it first — which is known as 'dry-labbing'.
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This vial of blood is the most controversial piece of evidence in the 'Making a Murderer' mystery — here's what might have happened to it
This tube of blood had the potential to make or break Steven Avery's case.
What an expert says about the FBI in 'Making a Murderer' could be damning to Steven Avery's defense
Bruce McCord, a forensic scientist who helped developed the EDTA blood test used by the FBI in the 2007 Avery case, says the results leave "no mystery."
This vial of blood is the most controversial piece of evidence in the 'Making a Murderer' mystery — here’s how the test that was run on it works
This tube of blood had the potential to make or break Steven Avery's case.
All of the FBI's EDTA blood evidence from Steven Avery's murder trial is now online
Fans of the Netflix show "Making a Murderer" have uploaded all 14 evidence exhibits to the site StevenAveryCase.org.
'A very damning letter': Here's how serious the problems at Theranos really are
Are these kinds of violations normal?