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Andrew Slattery, a rising Australian poet, won the Rosemary Dobson Prize in 2010 for a poem with powerful lines such as "bruised like a forceps baby"; "You keep old roads open by driving on the new ones" and "Death will come quickly like a cat jumping onto the bed".
A team of researchers who found that people think they are more attractive when drinking alcohol, have scooped an Ig Nobel prize for their work.
The Ugly Animal Preservation Society needs a mascot.
When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe, a Romanian immigrant who came to the United States without speaking English, and rose from limo driver to founder of a business-analytics company, Tidemark.
Over the past few years, we have witnessed how startups go lean to get a disruptive innovation out into the market and make it through the tough early stages.
Gwynedd-Mercy College announced this morning that its application to become a university has been approved.
The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System.
San Jose State University on Wednesday quietly released the full research report on the for-credit online courses it offered this spring through the online education company Udacity.
Scientists have grown human brain tissue from stem cells in a laboratory in Vienna.
The volume of sea ice in the Arctic hit a new low this past winter, according to observations from the European Space Agency's (Esa) Cryosat mission.
