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In his new book, Dr. Kevin Fong explores how humans survive extremes of heat, cold, outer space and deep sea. "We're still exploring the human body and what medicine can do in the same way that the great explorers of the 20th century and every age before them explored the world," he says.

A report on fish farming in the Great Lakes suggests Michigan should move carefully if it allows the industry to start up.State officials asked a panel of…

Governor Snyder will present his budget proposal for the next fiscal year this morning at the state Capitol.Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley told Michigan…

Switched On author John Elder Robison says the emotional empathy he gained after receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation was intense. "It's like I lost a protective shield," he says.

Violinist and author Anna Smaill's musical training shows through in her debut novel. The Chimes is set in a post-apocalyptic London where a mysterious order controls the population via music.

The U.S. Coast Guard is denying a request to allow barge traffic from entering the deep water port in Muskegon. It says it’s not safe enough and there are…

Germany is one of the few EU countries that has welcomed Syrians fleeing civil war. But it offers refuge only to a few thousand out of the millions who need it. And it actually deported Syrian asylum-seekers last year because of treaty requirements. Still, Syrians are risking their lives to get there.

There appears to be rising opposition to the planned sale of the Michigan School for the Deaf in Flint. Meanwhile, a legislative mistake threatens to…

When you grab a bottle of water at the grocery store, do you ever wonder where that water came from.And do you really know the quality of that water? We…

Is that a cross? A ship with a figurehead? It's only human to wonder what the future will hold, especially on the threshold of a new year. In one German tradition, fortune-seekers drop molten lead into cold water — then it's anyone's guess what the strange shapes portend.