Colleges, Illinois lawmakers look for ways to cut higher education costs
As the cost of attending an Illinois state university continues to climb, Illinois lawmakers are pushing various pieces of legislation to try and address affordability.
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SC legislators to state universities: Assign gay material, see your money cut
Some state legislators in South Carolina want to teach a lesson -- to two of the state's public universities.
Pioneering 3D printing reshapes patient’s face in Wales
A survivor of a serious motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using a series of 3D printed parts
Marijuana sales spark warehouse boom in Colorado
They’re scrambling for space to grow marijuana in Denver.
U.S. Senate intelligence chief accuses CIA of spying on Senate
A bitter dispute between the CIA and the U.S. Senate committee that oversees it burst into the open on Tuesday when a top senator accused the agency of spying on Congress and possibly breaking the law.
From mines to megawatts: The promise of ‘conflict-free Big Solar’
Arizona startup Green Energy Storage wants to transform an abandoned open-pit copper mine 45 miles south of Phoenix into a large-scale solar power and pumped-hydro storage facility.
5 predictions for the Web that were WAY off
In March 1989, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee published a paper proposing an "information management" system for his laboratory.
Beyond ebooks
Library directors and administrators at all types of colleges and universities agree their libraries should teach undergraduates research skills and information literacy ...
Elephants recognise human voices
Elephants are able to differentiate between ethnicities and genders, and can tell an adult from a child - all from the sound of a human voice.
Iraqi women protest against proposed Islamic law in Iraq
About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.
