Today, at VERGE 17, Google and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation are launching a report on Cities in the Circular Economy: The Role of Digital Technology.

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With a medal being handed back, officials alleging dirty tricks, and calls for an independent system to judge levels of disability, is Paralympic sport losing trust?

New Zealand and Canada have been singled out as the countries that best prepare students for the future, in a major study that assesses the “effectiveness” of education systems.

Medieval studies professors’ arguments on white supremacy lead to accusations of doxxing, racial insensitivity, as well as the use of expletives -- all on public forums, with concerns that one side has more power than the other.

Did the Montreal Protocol fix the ozone hole? It seemed so.

Their appearance at the event, set to take place Sept. 24-27, comes after violent protests caused Coulter and Yiannopoulos' previous planned speeches on campus to be cancelled.

A new scheme modelled after the renowned German and Swiss system of apprenticeship has seen keen interest from Singapore university students, with close to 200 applying for 65 places on offer this year.

Publishing giant Elsevier is taking on Wikipedia with the launch of a new service that provides encyclopedia-style entries on key scientific topics.

The Pirate Bay briefly put code on some of its web pages that used visitors' machines to mine a virtual currency.