Productivity: Age Is Just a Number
New study pushes back on decades of studies suggesting that scientific productivity peaks early and declines thereafter.
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Upgrading all borderline students’ degree classes ‘unacceptable’
UK universities must ensure that their policies on borderline scores do not in effect lower the thresholds for degree classifications, sector bodies say.
Advocating an expanded approach to collective action for water
Collective action is a key component of water stewardship as framed by organizations such as the Alliance for Water Stewardship and the CEO Water Mandate.
Google removes cupcake calorie counter from Maps
Google has decided to remove an update to Maps that shows users how many calories they would burn if they walked to their destination.
Default Crisis for Black Student Borrowers
Half of all black students who took out federal student loans defaulted in 12 years, according to two analyses of new federal data on student borrowers.
Getting behind the debate over lab-grown meat
"We built a lab with glass walls. That was on purpose," Ryan Bethencourt, program director for the biotech accelerator IndieBio, told me as we sat in the company's wide open basement workspace in the South of Market district of San Francisco.
This venture cap fund taps university students to find the best on-campus investments
Eric Tarczynski spent two years traveling around the country to put together a team of about 100 students at 50 campuses.
How big water projects helped trigger Africa’s migrant crisis
Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa.
Central European University faces further year of ‘legal limbo’
The threatened Central European University may face a further year of uncertainty over its future in Hungary, after the government extended the compliance deadline for its higher education act to 2019.
Trump allies worry that losing the House means impeachment
Top White House aides, lawmakers, donors and political consultants are privately asking whether President Donald Trump realizes that losing the House next year could put his presidency in peril.
