Coastal states want say in offshore drilling

Representatives of several coastal states told a congressional hearing Tuesday that states' views must...

Give scholars access to the national DNA database

Give scholars access to the national DNA database

Since 1998, the government has overseen the aggregation of a national DNA database that now includes 6.5...



3.2-magnitude quake hits in East Bay

A minor earthquake shook up a corner of the East Bay on Saturday morning with ripples felt across at least 70 ZIP codes. The magnitude...

Chronicle 2.23.09 4:00 AM

Terrence Gosliner

On Tuesday, as part of the Bay Area's continuing celebration of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday Feb. 12, biologist Terrence Gosliner...

Chronicle 2.22.09 4:00 AM

'Mother in the Middle,' by Sybil Lockhart

Mother in the Middle: A Biologist's Story of Caring for Parent and Child By Sybil Lockhart (Touchstone; 310 pages; $25) A little bit...

Chronicle 2.22.09 4:00 AM

Few fertility clinics follow embryo guidelines

The California fertility doctor who treated the octuplet mom was no lone wolf: Fewer than 20 percent of U.S. clinics follow...

Chronicle 2.21.09 4:00 AM

NASA's new mission to seek Earth-like planets

Somewhere far out in our Milky Way galaxy, thousands - perhaps millions - of pale blue dots are orbiting their suns just as Earth does...

Chronicle 2.19.09 8:47 PM

Police shoot pet chimp after attack

Travis the chimpanzee, a veteran of TV commercials, was the constant companion of a lonely Connecticut widow who fed him steak...

Chronicle 2.18.09 4:00 AM

Reno's space-age Fleischmann Planetarium

In 1964, when the space race was in full swing, a futuristic building appeared on a hill overlooking the University of Nevada campus...

Chronicle 2.15.09 4:00 AM