Hundreds crowd WSU administration building during sit-in protest
Hundreds of students crowded the French Administration building on Friday for a sit-in protest amid racial tensions on campus.
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Trump’s Judges: A Second Front in the Environmental Onslaught
As the Trump administration keeps moving aggressively to roll back environmental protections, it has a potent legal weapon — the scores of federal judges that President Trump will be appointing, most of whom are expected to hold anti-regulatory, pro-business views.
Sinking land, rising risk for world’s 340 million delta residents
Coastal deltas are becoming more at risk of flooding due to land subsidence, or the gradual sinking of the Earth’s surface, and sea-level rise.
The R-factor: a new way to rate journal articles?
Researchers have launched an ambitious new metric to rate the reproducibility of a scientific paper ...
Experts discuss promoting Chinese books globally
A symposium on translating and publishing children’s literature abroad was held at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF)
The computer that can smell explosives
Nigerian Oshi Agabi has unveiled a computer based not on silicon but on mice neurons at the TEDGlobal conference in Tanzania.
Liberty’s Disclosure Headache
University says it did not need to break out home sale to Trey Falwell, a top administrator who is son of the president, after allegations in an article that also detailed his ownership of a Miami hostel.
Lessons from China’s ambitious green building movement
China has grand plans to green its buildings.
Paying former gang members to go to college?
Who would pay former gang members to help them go to college?
University of Miami shuns links with Cuba under local pressure
The thaw in relations between the US and Cuba under President Barack Obama has led many universities in both countries to seek new academic partnerships, and this has continued despite the more hostile climate created by the Trump administration.
