This week, NPR's Rachel Martin is taking us inside some of our listeners' favorite holiday traditions. Today, it's about deciphering a mother's Christmas code. RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: If you have been ...

Next year, retailers will begin to see changes in the bar codes printed on manufacturers' coupons. A new bar code — the GS1 DataBar — will contain up to 70 characters of data, allowing manufacturers ...

Cancers, degenerative diseases: deregulation of our cells' internal communication pathways is at the root of many conditions. Microtubules -- microscopic protein filaments -- play a crucial role in ...

Rockville, MD – In a landmark contribution to the age-old battle against malaria, a consortium of scientists including The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) announced today that they have ...

In breaking up a drug trafficking ring, a local FBI agent had to figure out why the group always talked about baseball caps, truck parts and beans. The two-year investigation culminated earlier this ...