LAFAYETTE, La. -- The pitch felt good to Minnesota's Jennifer Johnson when she let it out of her hand, but it felt even better to Nicholls State's Angela Dugas as it popped off her bat. The shot went...

GENEVA (AP) -- Overuse of medicine, human settlement of uninhabited areas, international travel and poverty have combined to produce a devastating spread of infectious diseases, a new report says. The...

In order to understand racial conflict and inequality in society, we first need to understand our own roots, Edward James Olmos told a crowd Saturday evening at Ted Mann Concert Hall. Olmos is an advocate...

A group of international scientists ambled past the University. The leader was explaining local behaviors. "Minnesota winters are very cold," he said. "These young people strip virtually naked and lie...

Bonnie Cutkomp -- golden retriever -- sat patiently while a team of vet school students lathered and rinsed her shaggy body at the annual dog wash for charity Sunday on the St. Paul campus. "She's a water...

University sophomore Shannon Daniels used to consider herself a Republican. Although pro-life and fiscally conservative, she disagreed with the Republican stance on gay rights and bolted from the GOP's...

LAFAYETTE, La. -- The Gophers softball team allowed two extra-base hits in its two games at the NCAA South Regional. Unfortunately for Minnesota, they sailed over the bright red planks of Lady Cajun Park's...

The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was a sweltering 136 degrees Fahrenheit in Al'Aziziyah, Libya. But if Gophers men's tennis coach David Geatz is ever asked to name the world's hottest location...

In a large, dark, garage-like room, flames rage in a huge, round furnace while artists clad like firefighters in leather pour molten iron -- so hot it glows and oozes like lava -- into the dozens of art...

Captain Neuron and his friend Glia, super heroes of the brain and nervous system, spent the past week parading around the stage of the Great Hall in Coffman Memorial Union in tights and colorful plastic...