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Starting high school can be intimidating, but it's easier if you know your way around campus and have met some of your fellow students.

America is on course to be surpassed economically by China and India. With a disengaged workforce and a shrinking middle class, the quality of life for the masses, long held as the American Dream, is suffering.

Palo Alto police arrested 58-year-old Ahmad Esfandyarpour of Stanford on Thursday, July 31, for misdemeanor battery.

Photographic panels melding art and science by Gyorgy Kepes are on display at Cantor Art Center and include this light burst, "Lichtenberg Figures," .

OpenFlow is a Software-Defined Networking protocol used for southbound communications from an SDN controller to and from a network device.

The art of origami as we know it today -- folding flat sheets of paper into intricate sculptures -- was first developed in Japan around 400 years ago.

Cal Poly was recently ranked 70th of 1,500 colleges and universities and received a B+ grade by Money magazine in a survey that assessed overall value among four-year U.S. colleges and universities.

It has long been known that biomass burning - burning forests to create agricultural lands, burning savannah as a ritual , slash-and-burn agriculture and wildfires - figures into both climate change and public health but the degree of that contribution had never been comprehensively quantified and when science gets political, people may not always ... (more)

NSF announces two Frontier-scale projects, part of a $74.5 million investment to support foundational cybersecurity research and education As our lives and businesses become ever more intertwined with the Internet and networked technologies, it is crucial to continue to develop and improve cybersecurity measures to keep our data, devices and ... (more)

Chronic pain may rewire the brain in such a way that it decreases motivation, even after an individual takes painkillers, a new study in mice finds.

It's a window of opportunity. A chemical treatment that can turn mice transparent will allow researchers to see the body and brain in unprecedented detail.

The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research.

Vivian McCann is convinced that nurses can be taught to stand up to authority figures who are cutting safety corners.

A Wisconsin woman who was reported missing Sunday in Mountain View turned up safe early Wednesday at a BART station in Oakland, according to the Mountain View Police Department.

Whitworth has landed once again on Forbes ' annual rankings of the top undergraduate institutions in the United States.

Williams College is the best college in America, according to Forbes' annual Top Colleges ranking , which this year placed Harvard University at number seven.

Knowledge is power, unless your perspective on time is creating a mental block toward strong financial health.

Philadelphia school and city officials say the district will be forced to lay off teachers and possibly grow class sizes as large as 40 when students return in September, unless the state and city gives it more money.

Recently, on July 19, 2104, Sacramento had a solar cooker festival in Land Park.

Stanford University scientists have produced the first-ever high-resolution carbon geography of Peru, a country whose tropical forests are among the world's most vital in terms of mitigating the global impact of climate change.