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Jessica Watkins, an accomplished UCLA and Stanford grad who worked on the Curiosity rover with NASA JPL, will make history as the first Black woman to serve on a long-duration space mission.

Paige Bueckers scored 14 points and UConn advanced to the national championship game with a 63-58 win over defending champion Stanford on Friday night. The UConn women will now move onto the finals and take on South Carolina Sunday night. It’s UConn’s first trip to the championship game since 2016, when the Huskies won the last of four straight championships….

The women’s Final Four is a stacked slate, with UConn making their 14th straight Final Four appearance and Stanford looking to defend their title.

Stanford University officials confirmed the identity of an undergraduate student who was found dead in an on-campus residence.

In setting this mandate, the university joins a growing list that includes Brown, Harvard, and Princeton.

Which U.S. university is sending the most athletes to the Tokyo Olympics? It’s a school with a rich Olympic tradition.

Haley Jones scored 17 points and Stanford beat Arizona 54-53, giving the Cardinal and coach Tara VanDerveer their first national championship in 29 years

A new variant of the coronavirus is in the Bay Area and it is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States. The new double mutation is believed to be responsible for the surge in cases in India.

A scathing report from the Trump administration on Tuesday concluded that top U.S. universities have “massively underreported” funding they accept from China, Russia and other nations described as “foreign adversaries.”

Stanford professor Paul Milgrom’s Nest doorbell camera captured the moment his neighbor and fellow winner, Robert Wilson, alert him of their Nobel Prize win.

A group of 78 researchers and doctors from Stanford Medical School are calling out former colleague and White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas for spreading what they characterized as “falsehoods and misrepresentation of science.”

Christyn Williams scored 24 points and No. 5 UConn opened its season Sunday with a closer-than-expected 72-61 win over California.

Two-time NCAA champion Abrahm DeVine is accusing his former team at Stanford of homophobia and claiming that he was kicked off the team because he is gay, NBC News reported. “Plain and simple: There are surface-level reasons I was kicked off the Stanford swim team, but I can tell you with certainty that it comes down to the fact that...

In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for every state to legalize sports betting, a regional divide has opened as states decide whether to expand their gambling options. By year’s end, legalization is possible in a dozen states in the Northeast and Midwest. But most states in the Deep South and far West — SEC and...

When kids come into his section of the ER, Technician Jack DeWees says there isn’t much to keep them distracted or entertained. So, he decided to create something out the materials he had on hand. The results are amazing. Garvin Thomas reports.

This weekend, Earth’s atmosphere had a concentration of carbon dioxide last seen more than 3 million years ago, before humans had evolved, NBC News reported. The greenhouse gas was detected at 415 parts per million by sensors at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii on Saturday. The level has been steadily rising over the past decade and doesn’t appear set...

The former men’s tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin admitted Wednesday to accepting a $100,000 bribe in a wide-ranging college admissions bribery scheme and has agreed to cooperate with authorities investigating the high-profile case. Michael Center, 55, is the third coach to plead guilty in the nationwide scandal that has also ensnared wealthy parents, including executives and...

Once the darling of Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes, founder of failed startup Theranos, was in court Monday, now a suspected felon.

Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are among 15 parents who were indicted Tuesday in Boston on a new charge in the college admissions bribery case.

Katie Lou Samuelson scored 29 points and second-seeded UConn held off No. 1 Louisville 80-73 on Sunday in the Albany Regional Final, extending the Huskies’ record Final Four run to 12 consecutive years.