Already passed in the budget bill last summer was an amendment requiring the Consumer Products Safety Commission to withhold ...

FMF is an autoinflammatory genetic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and serositis (inflammation of the ...

Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was ...

There is an important initiative on the November California ballot that would make sweeping changes to California’s renewable ...

A great blue heron stands in the middle of some grass in Heron’s Head Park, surrounded by tall weeds and California poppies. Although herons are commonly found fishing by bodies of water, they are ...

16 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge lies the gorgeous expanse of Stinson Beach. On this preternaturally warm November day, my classmates and I laid out on the golden sand, people-watching and ...

Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1973. Monopoly control and citizen, especially minority, participation are crucial factors in developing guidelines for Cable Television. The San ...

"The doctors said there is no hope." The rain suddenly sounded louder. My mother looked back at me. She didn't say anything. She didn't need to. I knew that look.

Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 29, 1983. Editor’s note: Last week, in part one of this two part series on commercial genetic engineering laboratories. Synapse looked inside two of the major ...

Once the obligations of an international agreement are broken for the first time, it's easier to continue breaking the agreement. Congress lives by this truism. In 1946 the United States joined the ...

Applications for a new round of the Environmental Scholars Program are open to all UCSF students who have at least 2 years remaining in their enrollment, due by 9/30/26. The fellowship is a paid ...