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However, commonly used metrics of phylogenetic diversity do not incorporate information on the relative abundances of individuals within a community.

The longer you speak on the phone, the more risk you may have of getting tumors, some doctors say.

Cindy Hickey is shown on Sept. 22, 2009, in her rural Pine City, Minn., home. Hickey of Pine City, Minn., told The Associated Press that the hikers' families are trying to avoid getting pulled into the tense relationship between the U.S. and Iran and only want to keep stressing the innocence of their loved ones.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Barbara J. Miller died of natural causes, police announced today after a preliminary autopsy found no signs of trauma.

When California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George advised West Hills, Calif., attorney Cara DeVito that her time was up if she wanted to save a few minutes for rebuttal during oral arguments Tuesday, she let out a soft moan.

UC Berkeley graduates armed with pho noodles and optimism are betting that they can conquer the late night delivery food market among students.

Barbara Miller, the Alameda County Superior Court judge who presided over the controversial decision last year to build an athletic training center near Memorial Stadium, was found dead in her Oakland home Friday.

It began with ninjas and it ended with tofu, and somewhere in the middle hundreds of amateur sushi rollers set a new world record.

One-hundred days into their imprisonment in Iran, the three Americans arrested on a hiking path that crossed the Iran-Iraq border released public statements through their families Sunday.

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka's bid to woo Mt Kenya region to back him for the 2012 General Election is a throwback to the heady Kenyatta succession days in the 1970s.

Although 25 administrators and professors at UC-Santa Cruz earned $200,000 or more in 2008, the campus has the lowest faculty salaries of all nine of the University of California's undergraduate campuses, according to salary information released recently by the university.

The inspector general's report shows two days after U.C. Berkeley police first questioned Phillip Garrido, he was returned - as ordered - to his parole office for a meeting.

Love's Labour's Lost: Comedy. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole.

UC Berkeley alumnus and California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi captured the U.S. House of Representatives 10th Congressional District in a special election held Tuesday.

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star.

South Lake Tahoe resident Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted in front of her home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

The dirty little secret of the social networking business is that the quickest and easiest way to make money is to sell advertising to companies that scam their users.

New Film Takes Unprecedented Historic View of America's Wine Industry - 'America's Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition' Includes Interviews Which Chronicle The Rebuilding Of The Wine Industry And The Emergence Of A New American Wine Culture.

After a late night of texting or updating Facebook, it's hardly surprising that many teenagers show up groggy for school, which studies have shown can diminish academic performance.

An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.