Universities are still assessing the extent of the damage; field sites are at risk and some equipment has been damaged.

Technician’s death in Patrick Harran’s lab prompted the American Association for the Advancement of Science to yank Harran’s title as a fellow.

A University of California, Los Angeles chemist facing criminal charges after a lab accident that killed his research assistant in 2009 avoids a public trial and jail time.

Cotton cloth coated with DNA from herring sperm does not burn.

In Naples, a complex that housed an interactive science museum, a business incubator, and conference facilities burnt to the ground this week.

A US Fish and Wildlife official responds to the assertion that the northern spotted owl is being mismanaged by government.

A laboratory head faces criminal charges after one of his researchers died in a lab fire in 2008.