University of Utah researchers isolated an unusual nerve toxin in an ocean-dwelling snail, and say its ability to glom onto the brain’s nicotine receptors may be useful for designing new drugs to treat a variety of psychiatric and brain diseases.
“We discovered a new toxin from a venomous cone snail that may enable scientists to more [...]

Snakelike robots may soon fight terrorism, save lives, and make repairs on everything from battleship engines to the human body. Sound like science fiction? New research is bringing these incredible possibilities closer to reality. A leading researcher behind this endeavor is Howie Choset, a mechanical engineer and roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [...]

The halftime announcement is met by squeals from the football crowd at Welcome Stadium, as if Ed Sullivan is introducing the Beatles.
”And now, ladies and gentlemen, the 2005 homecoming king, the very talented Mr. Bobby Martin.”
Born without legs, Martin — a 3-foot-1-inch, 117-pound high school football player — quickly uses his hands to propel himself [...]

Romeo Dallaire who, as the former head of the U.N. Peacekeeping Force witnessed unspeakable horrors in Rwanda, as extremist Hutus massacred over 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus in the space of a few days in 1994. General Romeo Dallaire did everything he could, pleading for 2000 more peacekeepers to be added to his insufficiently equipped [...]

At the back door of the Yorkton courthouse, a tearful young woman stood in the bitter cold Friday and waved goodbye as the father she feels saved her from a certain drug-addict’s death was taken away to prison.
A jury convicted Kim Walker of second-degree murder for gunning down his daughter’s boyfriend, James Hayward, in March [...]