Paul Berg

SOUTH BEND - Ishaq Williams still has just one tackle to show for three reserve appearances for the Notre Dame football team. But when the 6-foot-5, 255-pound freshman outside linebacker rotates into the game, Notre Dame second-year head coach Brian...

John Berg's guidelines for healthy teeth come in a simple list of three—floss, use toothpaste with fluoride and brush with an electric toothbrush. His rule for a well-rounded life is just as easy. "Life is kind of a balance between your career,...

North Dakota State University's meat judging team placed second in the Southeastern Intercollegiate Meat Contest. The team received second place in the specifications category, thirds in beef judging and pork judging, fourths in the reasons and total...

1865 Experimenting with common garden peas, Austrian monk Gregor Mendel shows how traits like color and height are passed from one generation to the next. 1868 Swiss scientist Fredrich Miescher discovers DNA — what he calls "nuclein" — in human pus...

On May 22, 1989, doctors at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., hovered over the bedside of their patient, a 52-year-old man dying of cancer. A nurse hooked up a plastic intravenous bag containing a milky fluid. The man and his wife held...