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Their findings suggest that the early ocean was much more temperate and that, as a result, life likely diversified and spread across the globe much sooner in Earth's history than has been generally theorized.

People interested in participating in research studies can now connect online with scientists nationwide through a new nonprofit service called ResearchMatch.org , the first of its kind in the country.

People Power Company, an energy efficiency company providing residential monitoring and control systems, today announced it has closed Series A funding from New Cycle Capital, Seraph Group and other angel investors to support commercialization of the company's inaugural product offering.

" Friday the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum released more than 6200 pages of documents relating to foreign policy.

MOREHEAD, Ky. - The small town of Morehead is not where one would expect to find a Stanford University scientist.

U.S. and Welsh researchers say they've obtained a detailed picture of the early universe using a telescope in the Antarctic.

Metro NY recently reported that Facebook has "hopped aboard the peace train with it's new Peace Dot domain." This quote makes me happy because I imagine the Facebook logo drowning in hemp jewelry and Grateful Dead tee shirts holding up earnest peace signs waving goodbye to Papa Zuckerberg before heading to a d-list version of Woodstock somewhere in ...

Due to gifts from donors, Stanford University is undertaking its biggest building boom ever, with 87 projects worth $1.5 billion in design or under construction.

Arnetha Ball recalls a time when a teacher in a mostly African-American classroom was taking roll and asked if a particular student was absent.

The ferocious great white sharks of Northern California spend their time devouring sea lions, traveling, mating and, occasionally, touring San Francisco Bay, but they never socialize with sharks from other regions, according to a Stanford University-led study released Tuesday.

Millions of people in the United States may suffer from lymphatic diseases, but little is known about what causes these illnesses or how widespread they may be.

While a stem cell can renew itself indefinitely or differentiate into an adult cell, a progenitor cell can only divide a limited number of times and is often more limited than a stem cell in the kinds of cells it can become.

Courtesy Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service -- To accompany ssjm1102fisher column, depicted is an exterior view of the Hanna House at Stanford University, which was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Imagine driving at top speed on a steep, winding mountain pass in the Alps, or the Himalayas, or the Rocky Mountains.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it is collaborating with Stanford University in a research program designed to explore a new class of nanoscale devices using a combinations of the scanning probe microscope and atomic layer deposition .

Stanford University researchers say they've discovered how to transform human embryonic stem cells into germ cells.

It was 1969 and a busy year for making history: Woodstock, the Miracle Mets, men on the moon -- and something less celebrated but arguably more significant, the birth of the Internet.

The voice of National Public Radio's Israel coverage works out of a studio in the basement of her Jerusalem apartment.

For many of its 300 million enthusiasts, Facebook is a convenient way to keep in touch with friends, track down old sweethearts and share drunken photographs with the world.

U.S. researchers have found a way to coax human embryonic stem cells to turn into the types of cells that make eggs and sperm, shedding light on a stage of early human development that has not been fully understood.