The rising environmental toll of China’s offshore island grab
To stake its claim in the strategic South China Sea, China is building airstrips, ports, and other facilities on disputed islands and reefs.
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The University of North Dakota won’t punish students for their racially charged snapchats
The University of North Dakota has decided not to punish the students who posted racially charged photographs of themselves to the social media platform Snapchat
Norwegians laugh at new fence on Russian border
"We don't want this fence," says taxi driver Syvonne Tucker. "We want to have this relationship with Russia in the same way we've been having for all these years."
What HPE wants the Internet of Things to learn from people
The capability of the Internet of Things is nothing short of transformational: Collect vast amounts of data from sensor-laden objects, which then communicate and take action after analyzing their collective data.
Menacing clowns no laughing matter at Merrimack College
Merrimack College wants to work with other area schools in an effort to shut down the Clown Watch Twitter account they say is encouraging disruptive hoaxes ...
University of Michigan to invest $85M in diversity programs
The University of Michigan will invest $85 million over the next five years into programs aimed at boosting diversity ...
‘Dream Big, Start Small’
The University of Illinois's iMBA program offers encouraging news about the viability of graduate degrees built on MOOCs.
OK, Google – who will win the AI wars?
"We're moving from a mobile first to an AI-first world."
Humans have reached their lifespan limit, researchers say
Humans can only live so long and we're reaching the natural biological limit, researchers say in a report published in Nature.
UK grant success rates prompt worldwide comparisons
The success rate for grant proposals at UK research councils has fallen again despite efforts to weed out weak applications ...
