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Nitrogen-vacancy centers -- flaws in a diamond's crystal lattice that produce color -- have received much attention for their sensitivity to magnetic fields.

Asked earlier this week if Russia had violated international law with its incursion into Crimea, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, offered this response to a roomful of befuddled reporters: "I want to point out that we are aware of the historical facts and realistic complexity of the Ukrainian issue.

Fuselier was found dead in his apartment at 1121 Addison St., east of San Pablo Avenue, about 11 a.m. last Friday, police said.

A 16-year-old Oakland boy who set fire to an agender youth on an AC Transit bus last year was ordered to trial on aggravated mayhem, assault and hate crime charges on Thursday upon waiving his right to a preliminary hearing.

The city council and mayor here are among the highest paid elected officials in the state for similar sized cities, according to a recent salary survey conducted by the city manager.

According to scientific research, there's a strong case to be made for not being a jerk.

A memorial service is set Sunday for a Berkeley firefighter killed in a tractor accident last week, a fire official said.

On his way to and from school, Nicholas Reed navigates a gauntlet of advertisements for sugar-spiked alcoholic beverages, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco products.

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cut federal government outlays on food stamps by $4.6 billion per year, according to a study released Wednesday .

Today, that microscope, purchased at a Southern California pawn shop, sits in the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

At 9:50 p.m., an officer was in the city corporation yard fueling his vehicle when he heard a voices in the nearby park in the 1300 block of Allston Way.

"Rising like a pillar of destruction against a blue sky, great clouds of smoke" towered over North Berkeley 75 years ago, March 1, 1939.

Allison McCormack and Intae Kim in "After the War Blues" at the Zellerbach Playhouse at UC Berkeley.

Best-selling author Alice LaPlante discusses her new novel, "A Circle of Wives," on Thursday at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley.

Franz Welser-Most conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the administration of which has been exploring its relationship with Nazis during and after World War II.

The man police believe was Berkeley's first homicide victim of 2014 lived in this building on Addison Street.

Instead, the council voted 5-4, with Mayor Jean Quan breaking a tie vote, to gut the Domain Awareness Center so it will only monitor the Port of Oakland and the Oakland International Airport .

Drako's keynote, " Building Successful Technology Companies: Strategies from Barracuda Networks, Eagle Eye Networks, and more " will be given on Monday, March 10 at 5 pm.

Eagle Eye Networks, Inc. announced today that the company's President and CEO Dean Drako will give the keynote address for University of California, Berkeley Engineers Week.

From time to time through the years, I have come across people who have done well in spite of the circumstances of their birth.