There is never a dull day of fieldwork for Ed Rhodes.

Rob Summers has not been able to stand on his feet for the past four years.

Inside the Yang laboratories, one student places a solar cell under a sunlight simulator, a device that reproduces natural sunlight.

Emily Fennell can type 45 words per minute with her left hand.
The single, working mother can also cook, clean and drive to work.

In the wake of a partial meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, debate has emerged about whether California’s nuclear reactors put the earthquake-prone state similarly at risk.

California has two nuclear reactors in San Luis Obispo and near San Clemente that together produced 15.5 percent of the state’s energy in 2009, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.

A request to extend the lifetime of the Diablo Canyon reactor by 20 years has been postponed because of the events in Japan.

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A major victory for people in need of bone marrow transplants may be on the horizon.

It is sundown in a rural region of south India.
As night descends on a small village, a woman in a tattered sari sets fire to a composition of dung and firewood.

With high school behind her, Katya Schoenberg is looking forward to four years of living in the moment.