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Scholars weigh in on the Israeli Prime Minister’s warning that current negotiations are “paving the way” to an Iranian bomb.
A drought in Syria that was exacerbated by climate change helped fuel the unrest that led to the country’s civil war.
If you want a desirable ambassadorship, becoming a Foreign Service Officer and earning the relevant degrees – in other words, accumulating experience – might not be the best plan of action.
A lifetime of study and preparation are no guarantee of success for PhDs when they hit the job market. Things can and should be improved.
It’s important to reconnect management researchers with practitioners so their scholarly work is shared beyond academia.
Meet the indoor shopping mall’s hipper, “New Urbanist” cousin.
Is there an impatience to write the history of MOOCs? Have universities even given sufficient time to experiment with MOOCs?
Over 70% of scientists and engineers in the United States are white, but there are many challenges educators face.
Even when women and minorities earn STEM degrees, they don’t take the next step into gainful employment at the same rates as white men.
Americans have never rated climate change as an urgent political issue, but young voters and other “rising American electorate” groups could change that.
Over the last nine years, more money has been spent on Picasso than on any other artist. How much does Picasso’s granddaughter stand to earn? And why are some in the art world concerned?
Oregon has been a pioneer state for LGBTQ elected officials – against a background of fierce ideological battles.
Walmart’s promised wage hike will help half a million of its workers make a living, but it really just shows how much America’s working class struggles.
The technology HIV testing has evolved since 1985. And so too have our perceptions about what a positive HIV test means.
The release of a report on diversity at MIT prompts the question: how does the university compare with other influential STEM establishments?
The ethics surrounding corporate and foreign donations to the foundations of politicians are murky, but it’s hard to deny the givers are angling for influence.
Prior to the 1970s, almost all Phase I and II drug trials were conducted on prisoners. Our standards have gotten better since then, but still need revision.
In the 1920s, many black musicians were exploited by record companies, and faded into anonymity. Here are some of their stories.
This open internet debate isn’t the first time the government has wrestled with the question of how to apportion rights between private media owners and the public.
A roundtable of energy experts weigh in on the significance of Obama’s veto — the economics, the politics and the environmental — as well as what’s next.
The 2010 Flash Crash wiped 1,000 points off the DJIA in an instant. An MIT professor explains how to keep it from happening again.
History is not a ‘thing’ to be memorized, as some in the Oklahoma legislature might believe, but a living process, to be understood in all its complexity.
What kind of coffee you buy matters a lot to birds — key indicators of biodiversity in the tropics which likely provide many environmental and economic services.
If you’re always above average, it’s probably time to redefine what’s normal. The new normal for Earth’s climate is systematically rising temperatures.