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The block party season got underway yesterday in Menlo Park with a neighborhood tradition of sorts and the beginning of a new tradition just blocks away.

Entrepreneurs working to bring medical technology to market have a new venue to develop their next breakthrough.

Edvard Munch's The Modern Eye, which the exhibition says was a reflection of the artist's fears of losing his sight.

Motion-activated cameras at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve allow researchers to watch their world of animals like never before.

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Blue skies would fade to hazy white if geoengineers inject light-scattering aerosols into the upper atmosphere to offset global warming.

Diffbot, a Bay Area start-up that's bridging the gap between the Web and people's smartphones, picked up a hefty cash infusion from some big name investors Thursday.

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San Mateo County supervisor candidate Carlos Romero said Thursday he had "no intent to mislead" anyone in 2008 when he claimed to hold degrees from Stanford and Harvard universities during a candidate forum in the East Palo Alto City Council race.

The Cardinal Channel chats with Stanford coach Mark Marquess on the eve of the Cardinal's NCAA Regional opener against Fresno State.

Tim Warner, vice provost for budget and auxiliaries management, will discuss the university's budget plan for fiscal year 2013 at Thursday's meeting of the Faculty Senate.

At a meeting of the board of the Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders on Wednesday, May 30, PG&E representatives outlined their plans to replace a gas transmission pipeline, Line 109, a portion of which runs through Stanford campus lands.

Stanford alumnae Nehel Khalid Khanani, who is teaching in Karachi, Pakistan, and Lucinda Lai, who is gathering material for a book on the mental health of refugees on the Thailand-Burma border, were recently named 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholars .

A Tanzanian teenager scoops up muddy water from a well. Many of the world's aquifers are being pumped out faster than they can replenish, a process that will increase sea level rise.

Ever been to classic car shows in Northern California featuring those gorgeous, immaculately restored cars and trucks? If so, you may have seen the handiwork of Brian Dowdy and his Orland-based Golden Age Restoration shop.

How many people use drugs or alcohol to avoid or combat stress ? A lot. Some people even use to forget they use, like the Tippler character in the Classic 1943 children's book The Little Prince .

Radioactive cesium from the 2011 Japanese nuclear disaster has been carried across the Pacific Ocean to California waters in the flesh of Pacific Bluefin tuna, say researchers from Stanford and Stony Brook University.

The Fresno State baseball team learned early Monday that the Bulldogs will head to play in the NCAA Palo Alto Regional starting Friday at 6 p.m. against the Stanford Cardinal on Klein Field at Sunken Diamond.

Rapid advancements in genetic disease research necessitate innovative safeguards for patients, according to new American Heart Association policy recommendations published in Circulation , an American Heart Association journal.

Stanford hopes to soon begin improving a hiking and biking trail along Arastradero Road under the auspices of Los Altos Hills as a result of a decision recently made by the town's council.