Santa Clara pitcher Thain Simon received his third All-America honor this week as he was named to Baseball America's Freshman All-America second team. Simon, a Toronto native, is currently pitching for the Canadian national team that will play in the

In a small town in rural Ireland, Maire falls in love with George, a shy British soldier enchanted with all things Irish, not just Maire, but also the local pub's fiery poteen, the land, the people and the language—even the

The UC Botanical Garden is celebrating a noxious smell permeating its Tropical House, thanks to the blooming of Odora the Titan arum, also known not so fondly as the corpse flower.

Everyone's talking about "going green," but in the building industry, the cost of investment has been difficult to justify — until now. Haas professor John Quigley has co-authored a study that found that investments in proven green building practices lead

UC Berkeley has partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, one of India's leading research institutions, in a collaboration focused on energy and health care. But what really sets the program apart is the way it was conceived: by

The family relationships among the world's 9,600 bird species have been thrown into question by a genetic comparion of bird DNA. According to UC Berkeley ornithologist Rauri Bowie, the study sheds a whole new light on birds' long evolutionary road