Brent Stockwell, a Columbia biology and chemistry professor, has identified a potentially revolutionary new method to selectively kill cancer cells in humans. Stockwell worked with Columbia postdoctoral researcher Wan Seok Yang.

A Penn State student’s science project prompted a four-hour shutdown of the area surrounding the Fraser Street parking garage after the police responded to a report of a “suspicious package” early Friday afternoon.

College research is pushing ahead new discoveries to reduce the risk of neurodegenerative diseases, save NASCAR lives and examine the decline of bees. It’s all part of this week’s research roundup.

A UNL student organization, Ideas Have Consequences, held a student forum this week about evolution and intelligent design. We sincerely hope the forum, which was called “Darwin Meets Design,” is the last of its kind to be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

While humans might enjoy holding hands on dates, University of California at Berkeley scientists have found that octopi do the same — with their tentacles.

Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, along with other collaborators, have recovered the earliest-yet-discovered human sound recording, made 17 years before Thomas Edison’s famed sound recordings.