* Next Week: A Modern-Day Hanukkah Miracle Next week history will be made as experts reveal – and light – a batch of pure olive oil precisely as it was used in the Temple. * Netanyahu: Too many in Europe have learned nothing from the slaughter of 6 million Jews PM slams EU for decisions to take Hamas off […]

… President Obama that America will resume diplomatic relations with Cuba and loosen trade and travel restrictions is welcome news at the end of 2014 — a year marked by mainly depressing stories of global terrorism, racial divides, and pandemic disease.

The virus that has created four pandemic outbreaks since 1918 appears each year, typically from October to May in the U.S. Influenza mutates constantly, and there are two types of changes. Changes to the flu virus that happen slowly over time are …

The report highlights the USAID's Emerging Pandemic Threats program PREDICT-2 project, which has poured resources into understanding what drives disease emergence and what human behaviors cause it to spread widely. The project also supports the …

There was the nonstop onslaught of festivals during the warmer months—Sasquatch!, PDX Pop Now!, Pickathon, the retooled MusicfestNW, and the newly inaugurated Project Pabst—which offered no end of highlights. (A few quickies: Courtney Barnett at …

Anything Sasquatch. Any Bigfoot. Just the idea that there could be one? Anything. It's the idea that there could be one; a figurine; a plaster cast of a footprint; footage of the Patterson incident. Even Harry and the Hendersons—even that horrible …

Seeing Illinois in a bowl game might seem like spotting Sasquatch in the mountains or a unicorn in a field. This is the fifth bowl game for the Illini this century, and head coach Tim Beckman's crew had to win games over Penn State and Northwestern to …

DNA sequencing determined the cause of congenital cataract in 75% of patients; 85% of patients with nonsyndromic congenital cataract were likely to have pathogenic mutations and 63% of patients had potential disease-causing mutations, the study said.

Eating certain diets or being exposed to pollutants, for instance, can change methylation patterns on some of the genes in our DNA and affect what proteins those genes express. Depending on which genes are involved, it may also affect our health and …

MILWAUKEE — DNA evidence links a Milwaukee man to a brutal rape on the cities north side. The suspect's felony past caught up with him when Wisconsin's database popped up with this man's name: 24-year-old Robert C. Brown is charged with the robbery, …