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Athletes looking to improve their performance are turning to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students are learning how to apply cutting-edge technology to sports.

A visit to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. where giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a newborn baby over the weekend. Then, a discussion with a National Zoo veterinarian about the pregnancy and the information gained from this…

President Bush headed to Europe Tuesday for a three-day meeting with other industrial nations to discuss international economic issues. One of the topics on the G-8 agenda is climate change. Betty Ann Bowser of the Science Unit reports on the…

An immense flash of light marked the crash of a NASA probe into comet Tempel 1 early Monday morning. A flyby spacecraft recorded images of the flying dust, gas and other debris that mission scientists hope will answer basic questions…

Dr. Irving Weissman, a Stanford University professor and cofounder of the biotech company StemCells Inc., is working on inserting human nerve cells into mice to investigate how human brain cancers form. The following is an extended interview with Weissman.

Dr. Eugene Redmond, professor of psychiatry and neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine, has been working on adding human nerve cells into monkeys as part of the search for a cure for Parkinson's disease. The following is an extended…

Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College, tried to patent a human-ape chimera as a way to draw attention to the practice of blending genes. The patent was denied, which was what they wanted,…