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Scientists at a laboratory affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a stem cell culture medium free of animal cells and used it to derive two new human embryonic stem cell lines.

The new work, reported in the …

In his first year-end assessment of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts urged Congress to increase judicial pay to help keep good judges on the bench and to recruit new ones.

Amtrak‘s Silver Meteor train arrived in New York from Florida more than 28 hours late on New Year’s Eve, releasing more than 100 exhausted, hungry and angry passengers.

An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale rattled Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh on Sunday, causing panic but there were no reports of casualties, an official said.