In an astonishing Bronze Age discovery a 3000-year-old community has been unearthed
British archaeologists working on the Must Farm project in England's Cambridgeshire Fens can hardly restrain themselves.
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Growing overseas returnees drawn to new boomtowns
Five years ago, Du Juan, a native of Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, was wondering where to go for work after she graduated from Michigan State University.
Preparing Syria’s future leaders one college course at a time
Sajida had just begun her university education at the Engineering Technical Institute in Damascus when the bombs began to fall.
Do Colleges Need to Be Need Blind?
Some maintain that they can drop the policy and preserve access, but those who have gone need blind have seen gains in student diversity.
Journal behaviour encouraging ‘questionable research practices’
Social science journal editors are asking scholars to produce “impossible results” and creating an environment that encourages “questionable research practices”, according to two academics who have studied the “grey zone” between ethical and unethical research.
Earth on track for hottest year ever as warming speeds up
Temperatures recorded mainly in the northern hemisphere in the first six months of the year, coupled with an early and fast Arctic sea ice melt and "new highs" in heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels, point to quickening climate change
3 key battlegrounds for cities in the war against climate change
"If you want to win the climate change battle, it will be fought in the cities of the world," WRI President and CEO Andrew Steer told participants at a forum on the role of urban areas in the global shift to clean energy.
How Japan came to believe in depression
I'm sitting on a psychiatrist's couch in southern Japan, turning the pages of a manga by the artist Torisugari.
UC Regents take steps to streamline board operations, dig more deeply into crucial issues
University of California regents Wednesday approved a sweeping overhaul of board operations, the first in nearly five decades, saying it would free up more time for deeper discussions of crucial issues.
Could CUNY be tuition-free again?
Members of the New York City Council want the City University of New York (CUNY) to return to providing a virtually tuition-free college education to local students, but major issues stand in the way.
