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Surveys from North Central Michigan College’s Child Care Initiative will ask employers about the type of child care benefits they offer and how often they’ve lost employees due to the crisis.

Michigan is home to twice as many sand dunes as previously thought.A researcher says maps done in the 80s only accounted for large dunes, usually found…

Bacterial canker is a devastating tree disease that affects sweet cherry orchards around the country. There is currently no good way to treat it, but some…

Think for a moment about your most deeply held beliefs. Can you recall when you first formed them? Has it been so long that it feels as if they've just...

Congress has until the end of September to finalize a budget for the new fiscal year. The Trump Administration has proposed drastic cuts to science and...

President Trump's budget proposal for the 2018 fiscal year continues to send shock waves through the scientific world. Scientists are warning that the...

Federal spending on scientific research hasn’t kept up with inflation in recent years, and it’s made it harder for researchers to fund their work. Some...

Day after day, workers at Michigan State University care for and feed colonies of evolving bacteria. The original microbes have produced more than 50,000 generations in the 25 years since the experiment began. Despite predictions the bacteria might someday reach a point where they would evolve no more, the results show they keep changing.

A test for a virus linked to cervical cancer has been around for 10 years. But a lot of doctors still don't recommended it routinely for women. Female doctors are more likely to prescribe it than their males colleagues.