Wednesday February 25, 2009 Updated12:24 AM PST
Representatives of several coastal states told a congressional hearing Tuesday that states' views must...
Since 1998, the government has overseen the aggregation of a national DNA database that now includes 6.5...
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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