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Biologists have long believed that orchid bees and orchids rely on each other in equal measure.

Santa Cruz Blues Festival audience member Reyna Sotelo makes the most of her moment in the spotlight after being brought up on stage by legendary bluesman Elvin Bishop, right, on Sunday at Aptos Village Park.

On Sunday, remotely operated mirrors on top of the bridge's towers began flashing narrow beams of reflected sunlight all around the San Francisco Bay in an installation that marries art and science.

Before I came to college, I remember debating whether I should take my "Harry Potter" books with me.

Current technologies would use about one-third of the energy generated by the plants -- what's called "parasitic energy" -- and, as a result, substantially drive up the price of electricity.

As the 75-year-old Golden Gate Bridge preened itself to the west and the battleship Iowa slid out of the Port of Richmond for the last time, another momentous event occurred on the water Saturday, honoring a heroine of the same World War II era: Rosie the Riveter.

In a major case involving gay rights at CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension fund has been ordered to offer its long-term care insurance program to same-sex partners of California workers.

Oil prices in the United States have fallen over the last few months and tensions have eased a bit in the Middle East.

Travus T. Hipp was an independent-minded old cuss who was the very picture of the great American freethinker and hellraiser that always seemed to find a hospitable habitat in the West.

Beneath the crooked branches of massive oaks, Santa Rosa Junior College grads on Saturday celebrated their educational accomplishments and the institution that made them possible.

Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, an Atlantic senior editor, began her association with the magazine in 2002, shortly after graduating from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

The news that Ted Kaczynski was included in the 50th anniversary alumni directory has roiled the class reunion.

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You will have ample opportunities to snap shots in beautiful gardens while you hone your photographic skills in a summer class offered at UC Berkeley Extension, taught by award-winning Bay Area landscape and garden photographer David Goldberg.

For the next three months, people will be able to program the Golden Gate Bridge to brightly blink right at them for a few moments.

Rick Karnesky is a science nerd and a beer lover. So he is helping to launch Nerd Nite in Oakland, which he said is "like the Discovery Channel with beer." The motto is "Be there and be square." During Nerd Nite, a bunch of nerds get together in a bar to hear a talk on topics such as "A Boy and his atoms;" "Ghoti spells fish ;" and "Kawaii -- the ... (more)

The century-old open air amphitheater just east of campus -- its full name is the William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre -- seats 8,500 and is right beside the Hayward Fault.

Michael Pollan would likely make his Jewish grandmother very happy. After all, his rallying cry that has so impacted the way Americans think about food over the last decade can be summed up as this: "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." The Long Island, New York, native, 57, made his first big splash with 2006's ... (more)

A U.S. Geological Survey study says faults west of Lake Tahoe, Calif., pose a substantial increase in the seismic hazard assessment for the surrounding region.

Students on campus at the University of California, Los Angeles, which has one of the largest international student populations in the country.