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Baseball Bounces Back Against CalT he best cure for a long losing streak? A three-game rout of your cross-Bay rival. Stanford baseball recovered from recent struggles to sweep Cal on the Bears' home turf for the first time in a decade. The team closes out the regular season this week with a four-game home stand against Pacific and UCLA. |
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California Frog Carries PathogenR esearchers at the School of Medicine have uncovered evidence that an invasive frog species found in California has been harboring a fungal infection that is decimating worldwide amphibian populations. The African clawed frog has been suspected as a vector in epidemics around the globe, but this is the first evidence that frogs in California are carrying the pathogen responsible. |
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Earth's Core Is Weaker Than ThoughtT he massive ball of iron that forms Earth's core is far weaker than long thought, according to two Stanford mineral physicists. Using a diamond anvil cell, the scientists simulated the immense pressures in the planet's interior, some 3 million times the atmospheric pressure at sea level. The results suggest the inner core is only about 40 percent as strong as previously estimated. |
