Ballston Spa standout Mariscano wins big race In 2006, Chad Hedrick of Spring, Texas, won the Olympic gold medal in the 5,000-meter speed skating long track competition.That same competition in Turin, Italy, he won the silver in the 10,000 meters. On Sunday, Trevor Marsicano of Ballston Spa beat him. Marsicano, 19, was competing at the U.S. Long Track Speedskating National Championships. The ...

In this ongoing quest, a group of Scripps Research Institute scientists, along with colleagues from the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) have borrowed from physics to deliver one of those research rarities - an unmitigated success. The group has devised a computational method that, with remarkable accuracy, predicts how bacterial proteins fold and interact.