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Americans in two dozen states from the Midwest to the Southeast and Northeast are shivering this week courtesy of a distorted polar vortex.
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their efforts to understand what causes so-called supervolcanoes to erupt.
Sharing always has been a virtuous idea, but the post-recession Internet has fostered an unprecedented and burgeoning collaborative economy.
Syracuse University, which suffered on college ranking lists as it admitted more poor and minority students who didn't necessarily have the grades and SAT scores of other applicants, is looking to reverse that rankings slide under its incoming chancellor.
In the summer of 2011, 19 undergraduates at the University of North Carolina signed up for a lecture course called AFAM 280: Blacks in North Carolina.
As the world becomes more urbanized, researchers and city managers from Baltimore to Britain are recognizing the importance of providing urban habitat that can support biodiversity.
As legalisation of marijuana spreads, Chinese companies have the patents ready to exploit new markets.
Church leaders in southern Italy have demanded a cleanup of waste dumped illegally by the mafia in a racket that has polluted farmland and earned the region the name the "Triangle of Death".
In a classroom in southern Turkey, 8-year-old children proudly display their colored-pencil drawings. They