In developing world, a push to bring e-waste out of shadows
For decades, hazardous electronic waste from around the world has been processed in unsafe backyard recycling operations in Asia and Africa.
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For decades, hazardous electronic waste from around the world has been processed in unsafe backyard recycling operations in Asia and Africa.
China’s search engine giant Baidu.com has been tracking the mass movement of people for the Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, since January 26.
Energy and water, two of our most important global resources, are inextricably linked.
A celebrated composer hailed as a "Japanese Beethoven" for creating hit symphonies despite his deafness has been exposed as a fraud, after confessing another musician wrote his most acclaimed works.
There is more evidence that salmon use the Earth's magnetic field to perform extraordinary feats of navigation.
After 18 months of meetings, debate and public arguments, Rutgers University unveiled an ambitious new long-term plan today designed to make the school one of the top research universities in the nation.
The plagiarism detection service Turnitin on Wednesday made bold claims about the effectiveness of its product to weed out “unoriginal writing”, but researchers in the field aren’t buying the results.
The University of Queensland medical school may change its medical exam weighting for graduates after research showed it may be unnecessarily favouring men over women as future doctors.
Israel's Finance Ministry said on Wednesday it was cutting funds to seminary students exempt from compulsory military service, in the latest battle between the Jewish state's secular majority and an ultra-Orthodox minority.
Endorsed by the University of Oxford, the “mid-stakes” Oxford Test of English (OTE) gives students an externally validated assessment of their language level based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) but is not an accepted test for university admissions or student visa applications.