Northern Lights: Large-Scale Solar Power Is Spreading Across the U.S.
Once largely confined to the sunny Southwest, utility-scale solar power plants are now being built everywhere from Minnesota to Alabama to Maine.
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Why I used crowdfunding to bring a truckload of plastic trash to Stockholm
A container of plastic garbage pulled into Stockholm a couple of weeks ago.
Turning Down Top Choices
About 40 percent of students who decided not to go to their college or university of first choice cited reasons related to costs.
To boost its economy, Tennessee is creating more college grads
Amy Haddock, a 41-year-old stay-at-home mom, may not seem like a mechanically minded tinkerer, but she wants a career.
Gates Foundation joins shift towards open access platforms
One of the world’s biggest funders of scientific research is to establish an open access platform that will allow its grant winners to publish their findings...
Entrepreneurs can help in the quest for safe drinking water
A recent article in the Asia & The Pacific Policy Society policy forum, "Implementing the human right to water: Turning the taps on better global water policy (PDF download)," highlights the urgent need to solve the lack of access to safe drinking water (
Twitter shuts 377,000 ‘terrorism’ accounts
Twitter says it shut nearly 377,000 accounts for promoting terrorism in the second half of last year.
Continental European university model ‘under pressure’
Elite continental European universities could find it “increasingly difficult to compete” with their US and UK counterparts ...
Better Marriage Between College and Job Training
Republican-dominated Washington wants more occupational job training as an alternative to college degrees. But higher education will remain the federal government’s primary job-training system, albeit one experts say could use a reboot.
Airline electronics ban: What you need to know
U.S. officials say concerns over screening procedures at some airports in the Middle East and Africa will require passengers to check in almost all electronic devices larger than a smartphone, rather than carry them into the cabin.
