Just about sunset one evening this past December, I stood on a hill above the Rio Grande and watched the river wind its way toward Boquillas Canyon in Big Bend National Park, Texas. The sun was golden on the high Sierra del Carmen in Mexico and the tule reeds along the river blew gently in...

James Watson had discovered the double helix structure of DNA by his mid-20s. Discovering a woman who would love him was a good deal harder. “Naturally I wanted a girlfriend,” he told a large crowd gathered to hear him at a talk sponsored by the University Bookstore at the Biological Sciences Learning Center Tuesday night....

The history of life became a little clearer this week. A paper published in the current issue of Science by the University’s Susan Kidwell has helped show that the marine fossil record, a vital source of data for scientists studying the early history of life on the planet, is reliable. “The fidelity of fossil assemblages...

The two daytime robberies of University students last month were part of an increase in the crimerate that saw September’s robbery numbers climb to a level not matched for that month since 1993, according to crime statistics released by the South East Chicago Commission (SECC). According to Bob Mason, executive director of the SECC, last...

The National Science Foundation has awarded University computer scientist Ian Foster a $12 million grant to develop a system that will seamlessly link together computers across the world. The system, called a grid, will allow scientists to harness the resources of thousands of computers at once, in essence creating supercomputers distributed across continents. Foster, along...