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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.

National Review Editor Rich Lowry has come to the defense of embattled Condoleezza Rice after hundreds of students and professors protested her planned speeches at two universities.

While many tiger conservation efforts focus on the numbers of a population, maintaining the big cats' genetic diversity is just as important, according to a report published on Thursday in the Journal of Heredity .

The names Betty, Gloria and Shirley probably come to mind when most think of feminists, but there's a whole group of young women -- and men -- who are working toward equality.

Dermatologists who receive free drug samples are more likely to give their patients prescriptions for expensive medicines, a new study says.

As the first state to drop the national Common Core learning standards, Indiana is rushing to approve new state-crafted benchmarks in time for teachers to use them this fall, and education leaders from across the nation are closely watching.

What's UC Irvine got that a group of determined UC Berkeley students want? President Barack Obama, on commencement day.

Over 20 years after the fatal fialuridine trial, a study published this week in PLOS Medicine demonstrates that mice with humanized livers recapitulate the drug's toxicity.

A tiny box orbiting Earth is sending home big data. Built mostly by undergraduate students for less than US$1.5 million, the 10 centimetre A- 10 cm A- 30 cm satellite, called Firefly, is now beaming back information on terrestrial I3-ray flashes - energetic bursts that are triggered by lightning and fired out into space.