UI music Professor Mark Weiger likely followed the pattern of most people scrutinized publicly leading up to his apparent suicide, officials said Thursday. Since Wednesday, the news of Weiger's death has spread to numerous newspapers across Iowa and

Will your computer science degree be replaced by a Web sciences one? It might as academics are increasingly dabbling with the study of the Web, but first a workable definition is needed. In a treatise in Scientific American's October issue, Nigel Shadbol

WASHINGTON -- So this is what passes for big-time political journalism in August 2008: Hanging outside Sen. Joe Biden's Wilmington, Del., home and analyzing a sentence he mutters while he's pulling out of his driveway.

They have worked for almost seven years in secret. Most people did not know that the work in Ray Goehner's materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories was contributing important information to the FBI's investigation of letters

Among the undergraduate offerings Yale University is making freely available by Internet access through the Open Yale Courses are three popular science courses in biomedical engineering, physics and astronomy. "Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering," taug