A janitor accidentally destroyed $1 million of scientific research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Hang Yu/Getty A janitor destroyed $1 million in scientific research after turning off a super ...

TROY, New York — More than 20 years of cell cultures and other specimens stored at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were destroyed when a cleaner switched off power to a lab freezer, according to ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute filed a million-dollar lawsuit against a cleaning company after a custodian, seeking to stop an "annoying" beep, allegedly turned off a lab freezer and killed decades ...

More than 1,500 ultra-low temperature lab freezers are maintained across Baltimore by Johns Hopkins University. Just a single one of these units can drain as much energy as a single-family home, ...

TROY, N.Y. (CNN) - More than 20 years of scientific research is down the drain. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York says a janitor turned off a lab freezer after hearing multiple ...

TROY, N.Y. – More than 20 years of cell cultures and other specimens stored at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were destroyed when a cleaner switched off power to a lab freezer, according to a ...

Not many nightmare scenarios grip Kristala Jones Prather’s imagination. But one that haunted her for a long time involved the –80 °C freezer in her Massachusetts Institute of Technology lab. Freezer ...