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SOUTH BEND -- Using a new $4 million particle accelerator, University of Notre Dame researchers are probing the mysteries of the universe. "We're focusing on the origin of the elements in the universe," physics professor Michael Wiescher said. The 5MV...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The attorney for a Chinese immigrant charged with murder for eating rat poison in an attempt to kill herself while she was pregnant argued Wednesday that authorities haven't proved that the toxin is what caused the premature...

SOUTH BEND — Saint Mary’s College has been awarded $840,000 in grants to provide scholarships to students in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. A total of $600,000 will come from the National Science...

NOTRE DAME – A chemistry research team at St. Mary’s College has created a new tool to fight the world's counterfeit drug problem. It’s through an inexpensive paper-based test that can be used to screen for phony pain relievers. The...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space used to be a man's world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail into orbit for U.S. women. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Taxpayer dollars in Louisiana's new voucher program will be paying to send children to schools that teach creationism and question evolution, challenging the lessons central to public school science classrooms. Several...

A huge scientific announcement is expected Wednesday morning...One with a local connection. Physicists say they have all but proven that the "God particle" exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and the only thing left is to see for themselves the...

To cheers and standing ovations from scientists, the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson -- popularly known as the "God particle" -- that...

SOUTH BEND -- They have the right clues. Even the suspect is in hand. But just as with all good detective stories, a University of Notre Dame physicist says, there are bound to be twists and turns as the details eventually unfold. Kevin Lannon, an...

(WATCH! Video shows WSBT-TV Reporter Kelli Stopczynski's pingpong balls/sugar/tray demonstration.) Scientists say they've made a huge discovery that could explain how and why the universe was formed, and researchers at Notre Dame played a role. The big...

The University of Notre Dame’s Computer Science & Engineering program will collaborate with Schurz Communications on a first­-of-its-kind “innovation challenge,” beginning fall semester, 2012. Undergraduates, graduate students and...

Nine spellers advanced into the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night, but Margaret Peterson, 12, of Granger, was not among them. Even though she correctly spelled "googol" and "epistolary" in the second and third rounds, she did not...