A new frontier for fracking: Drilling near the Arctic Circle
Hydraulic fracturing is about to move into the Canadian Arctic, with companies exploring the region's rich shale oil deposits.
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Hydraulic fracturing is about to move into the Canadian Arctic, with companies exploring the region's rich shale oil deposits.
With one sentence in a letter this summer, officials at the U.S. Department of Education brought one of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges to the brink of insolvency.
Wichita State University President John Bardo has outlined a major expansion of the WSU campus to support job creation and a university strategy based on innovation.
U.S. President Barack Obama says he wants to make sure that obtaining a higher education is affordable.
Detentions, the kidnapping of bishops, tearing down churches -- these are the actions against Christians China has been guilty of.
In discussions about the gender gap among tenured professors at research universities, there is little dispute that there are far more men than women with tenure in most disciplines.
Ever since National Hispanic University announced it will shut its doors next year, students like San Jose's Ramon Ramirez have had one word to describe the fallout: "panic."
We are now beginning to crack the brain’s code, which allows us to answer such bizarre questions as “what is the speed of thought?”
Tens of thousands of foreign students have become permanent residents in Australia as a likely result of widespread fraud and corruption within and outside the federal Immigration Department.
Ukrainian rebels are receiving new armoured vehicles and fighters trained in Russia, with which they plan to launch a major counter-offensive against government forces...