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Battery storage is reaching the point of no return
Advanced battery energy storage — known as ABES — is one of the few technologies that has the potential to permanently disrupt America’s energy markets.
At What Cost Wi-Fi?
Students expect wireless internet access everywhere on campus, and colleges and universities pay millions to provide it.
Black students ‘do better’ at historically black colleges in US
Black students in the US are more likely to graduate if they attend a historically black university rather than a predominantly white institution, according to research.
Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ legal battle
A UK judge has ordered Google to remove old articles about a businessman's past crime from its search results, dealing a blow to the tech company in its legal battle over Europe's "right to be forgotten" law.
Where Colleges Recruit … and Where They Don’t
New study finds that colleges go where students are likely to be white and wealthy.
Giant sucking sound is college grads leaving N.M.
Shades of Ross Perot; what is causing that giant sucking sound heard around Albuquerque? Is it jobs heading to Mexico as Perot predicted NAFTA would cause?
What does sustainability mean for beef?
Sustainability as it relates to food production can be a challenging word for all vested stakeholders to agree upon.
Artificial intelligence must be ‘for common good’
Ethics should be at the centre of the development of artificial intelligence (AI), a UK parliamentary report has said.
Cambridge launches policy institute to tackle ‘age of disruption’
The University of Cambridge has launched a new public policy institute to address inequality and social unrest across the world, after receiving a “major gift” from a philanthropist.
