Should tennis be worried about the ‘kissing disease’?
Christina McHale, energy sapped and unable to train properly, knew something was wrong last year.
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Lack of students closes joint law course with NYU
A joint degree run by New York University and the National University of Singapore that awarded a master of laws degree from both universities is being scrapped after just five years, due to poor uptake by students.
A new life on the red planet
A putative program to establish a human colony on Mars has met with a strong response from hopeful Chinese citizens ...
Joblessness fears as record number of Chinese graduates hit market
A record 6.99 million students – an increase of 190,000 on last year's figure – will graduate from China’s higher education institutions this year.
Balance is key to making quantum-dot solar cells work
There has been great interest in recent years in using tiny particles called quantum dots to produce low-cost, easily manufactured, sta
Sharp decline in UK foreign student numbers
A steep decline in foreign students coming to study at UK colleges and language schools has prompted fears of a knock-on effect on universities.
Punk band member critical of Putin denied parole
A Russian court denied parole for Maria Alyokhina, a jailed member of the Pussy Riot punk band ...
Doctoring the Doctorate
Hoping to help Ph.D.s secure jobs and challenge old notions about academe, Stanford University will encourage and pay for humanities graduate students to pursue careers as high school teachers, starting next year.
Research on microbes points to new tools for conservation
Improvements in DNA technology now make it possible for biologists to identify every living organism in and around a species.
Disliking The Over Abundance of “Likes” In Social Media Gamification
Likes in Facebook and Instagram, +1′s in Google+, (potentially) “HISCORE(s)” in Snapchat are fun to get (though there isn’t much evidence having a HISCORE is a big deal for users yet).
