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A single type of cell in the lining of the bladder is responsible for most cases of invasive bladder cancer, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The future of an effort to monitor earthquakes from within the infamous San Andreas fault is on shaky ground.

A lot of people may say that, but I truly can say that. When you have a place as outstanding as Disneyland, with all the heart that is here, and your core mission as a business is to make people happy, right there that can't be a tough job.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars.

For your information: MNT accounts were not affected by the recent Heartbleed bug, as we were not running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL.

Proponents of a $265 million bond measure say it will help address overcrowding and enrollment growth in the Sequoia Union High School District, while opposition says this is the wrong way to approach spending.

Rice, who served as national security adviser and then secretary of state under President George W. Bush, is taking the neoconservative line on Ukraine.

When Marcela Sosa opened her email last month and saw the "congratulations" message from the University of California, Berkeley, she was so shocked that she jumped out of her chair.

The University of California system invited 4.8 percent more students to join its fall 2014 freshman class over 2013 - including more Californians, Latinos and out-of-state and international students - but the preliminary freshman admission rate at UC Berkeley dropped below 20 percent for the first time ever.

Now that Stanford Profiles is up and running - featuring more than 18,000 profiles of faculty, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars - it's time for the university's academic and professional community to take the new website for a spin.

The future of an effort to monitor earthquakes from within the infamous San Andreas fault is on shaky ground.

Stanford's proposed Perimeter Trail would offer runners and bikers better access along Stanford Avenue from El Camino Real to Junipero Serra Boulevard.

The most reclusive state on earth is paradoxically a country that draws great attention from the rest of the world when it is in the news - usually for its nuclear threat, horrific human rights abuses and its unpredictable behavior.

Maintaining an interest in the goals you pursue can improve your work and reduce burnout, research reveals.

Julie Desjardins, CPA, CA, has over 20 years of business consulting experience. She is President of Desjardins & Associates Consulting Inc., a company dedicated to performance measurement and business reporting, including sustainability reporting.

Chemist John Vaughn conducts a titration at Halotechnics in Emeryville, one of the first startups to join the CalCharge initiative.

A dramatic, fresh impact crater dominates this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 19, 2013.

For children who have their tonsils removed, the only silver lining to look forward to is the promise of all the ice cream they can eat, but parents may want to think about a healthier option.

Anthony Bebbington, Director of the Graduate School of Geography and Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society at Clark University, was recently awarded a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in support of his forthcoming book, "Natural resource extraction in Latin America: transforming the ... (more)

While politicians posture, and climate scientists sigh sadly, researchers in laboratories continue to devise ingenious new ways to save energy, increase efficiency, and make the most of solar power.