Mutallab,an engineering student who studied in Britain, told investigators he was acting on instructions from al-Qaida and got the explosive materials in Yemen.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Mark Bedau of Reed College in Oregon says Mister Venter's work marks an important step over traditional genetic engineering of individual genes.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Grafting continues to hold an important place in agriculture even in an age of modern genetic engineering.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

Candidates had to be highly intelligent, with an education in science or engineering.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Bill Hunt,a professor of Biology and Agricultural Engineering at North Carolina State University, has developed an easy-to-use computer model to predict how landscape impacts water pollution.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Adang Surahman, an earthquake engineering expert at Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology,says most of Jakarta's high-rises have been built to withstand what scientists refer to as the once in 500-year quake.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07