New technology and better coordination have sped up development. But a coronavirus vaccine is still months — and most likely years — away.
The virus has sickened more than 5,500 people in China and a handful in other countries.
The virus has sickened more than 4,500 people in China and a handful in other countries.
Tyrone Abraham served his time. His story shows what happens when a state’s criminal justice system collides with federal immigration enforcement.
Tyrone Abraham served his time. His story shows what happens when a state’s criminal justice system collides with federal immigration enforcement.
Prosecutors say Charles M. Lieber, the chair of Harvard’s chemistry department, lied about contacts with a Chinese state-run initiative that seeks to draw foreign-educated talent.
A benefactor’s big gift will create a research center in Portland, Maine, testing a small city’s ability to prosper as a magnet for innovation.
Amid news the coronavirus is spreading at an accelerating rate, concern is growing that China’s lockdown of cities may not only have come too late but could even make the situation worse.
Security forces took back bridges and squares in Baghdad and Basra after the prominent Shiite cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, said he would no longer intervene on protesters’ behalf.
At a meeting in California, top officials in college sports mulled how to change the rules that would allow athletes to profit from their fame. But new standards won’t happen until at least 2021.
Days after Asheen Phansey posted what he said were sarcastic suggestions of American sites that Iran could target for bombings, he was fired from Babson College in Massachusetts.
Rod Serling, who created “The Twilight Zone,” died in 1975. His wife — in publishing, academic and screen ventures — helped keep his spirit alive.
An outside law firm was hired to investigate allegations made against Martin Philbert, a tenured professor of toxicology, the school said.
Students in Cambridge, Mass., and Ramallah have created an app to track road quality. It turns out the roads around Cambridge are worse.
The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures, were looted over 120 years ago. After a chance encounter, two men made it their mission to return them.
La pesca excesiva y la construcción de presas han puesto en peligro inminente a la megafauna de ríos y lagos del mundo. Pero muchas especies aún pueden salvarse.
During his tenure, 1980-93, the university was restored to financial health, divested from companies tied to South Africa and admitted women to its college.
The National Organization for Women says ratification is about the law and basic human rights. Also: Big Tech and a campus divide; hydropower’s potential.
Overharvesting and habitat loss endanger most of the world’s freshwater “megafauna.” But many species may yet be saved.
If James Franco could handle grad school, why couldn’t I?
At Baylor, Mr. Starr correctly surmised that the university’s sexual assault crisis stretched far beyond the football team. What he did, or did not do, about that cost him his job.
The lessons of the last recession were harsh but clear. Public colleges need plenty of money during economic declines.
Jonathan Holloway, the provost at Northwestern University, is expected to be introduced by the school on Tuesday.
America has been inconsistent at best when it comes to deciding what 18- to 21-year-olds are too young, or just old enough, to do.
Aishe Ghosh, a young woman who was set upon at a campus demonstration, has become an icon in India’s growing protest movement.
You probably aren’t paying enough attention to your debt, an accountant argues in a new book, and that could be costing you.
Bad news used to spook the markets. Now it seems to lift them. How weird is that?
Bad news used to spook the markets. Now it seems to lift them. How weird is that?
Borrowers whose schools abruptly shut down or used misleading practices won’t have to pay taxes on their forgiven balances.
If wolf pups will retrieve a ball for a stranger, no training necessary, maybe dogs’ wild ancestors were also ready for human games.
A Grolier Club exhibition explores 500 years of women as scientists, midwives, writers, activists, undertakers and more.
A movement to demonize Israel corrupts the academy.
Wealthy men and women generally have seven to nine more years of “disability-free” life after age 50 than poor people do, according to a new study of English and American adults.
Wealthy men and women generally have eight to nine more years of “disability-free” life after age 50 than poor people do, according to a new study of English and American adults.
They are among more than a dozen parents who are still fighting charges in the sprawling admissions prosecution.
According to the college, Grace Rett, 20, died when a pickup slammed into a van carrying about a dozen members of the team.
The authorities say that the suspect is part of a nationwide ring of white supremacists trying to foment panic.
Thomas J. Minar was arrested this month in Wisconsin on suspicion of sex crimes involving children, a prosecutor said. He has been released on bond.
A reader says that’s the best way to restore integrity to the game after the sign-stealing scandal. Also: Tax all tobacco products; the University of Phoenix, on adult learning.
This round of funding totals $30.9 million and will support 188 projects across the country.
“We can’t have movements that strip us of our fundamental rights,” said Donna Rotunno, who has faced criticism from feminists.
His research on driver’s licenses — who had them, who didn’t — was cited in voting rights disputes over whether requiring picture IDs was discriminatory.
His research on driver’s licenses — who had them, who didn’t — was cited in voting rights disputes over whether requiring picture IDs was discriminatory.
The poll, conducted by Monmouth University, found Mr. Biden’s top three competitors in close pursuit.
Asheen Phansey said he regretted his “bad attempt at humor” and had hoped the college would have defended his right to free speech.
The crisis of English departments is also a crisis of faith.
Facebook, Google and other major tech firms were every student’s dream workplaces. Until they weren’t.
Of the 176 victims, 57 Canadians died on the flight that crashed on its way from Tehran to Ukraine. Many were students or faculty at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
The university investigated its history with Mr. Epstein after Joichi Ito, the face of its prominent Media Lab program, acknowledged receiving money from the convicted sex offender.
After serving 22 years in prison, he is making up for lost time, with a job at the Ford Foundation, good coffee and a long soak in the tub.
Under the Secure Act, approved in December, up to $10,000 can be used to repay student loans. The law also allows 529 funds to be used for apprenticeships.
Hindu nationalists view Jawaharlal Nehru University, where a mob rampaged last weekend, as “a symbol of everything that is bad in this country,” one analyst said.
Teenagers and young men still don’t have the right vocabulary. Can we help them get there?
Researchers at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia said the procedure could pave a new path to parenthood for women with uterine factor infertility.
Researchers at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia said the procedure could pave a new path to parenthood for women with uterine factor infertility.
Two people were injured in Chicago, a reminder that as more coyotes move to the cities, some conflicts are inevitable.
Researchers found 10 new species and subspecies of songbirds off the coast of Sulawesi, with distinct songs and genetics from known birds.
Scientists knew octopuses and squid didn’t have any depth perception, but they had a hunch their cuttlefish cousins might.
Angry and disaffected, the “Prozac Nation” author, who died this week at 52, found new peace and purpose in her later years.
Not long after her killing, someone left a racist message on my office phone at Barnard, where she had been a student. Why?
More than 18,000 women are expected to receive $2,500 to $250,000 from the University of Southern California.
After a year of revelations about racism and sexism, the profession’s annual meeting reflected signs of progress, but also work to be done.
Despite a growing sense of stability and optimism after decades of chaos and violence, Somalia has been unable to curb the threat posed by the terrorist group Al Shabab.
Prosecutors said that the victim told the police she “no longer feels safe wearing a hijab in public and is relying on alternative methods to cover herself.”
Dozens were hurt by attackers who shouted Hindu slogans. Some students said they belonged to a far-right Hindu group, which denied involvement.
Named in a sexual misconduct lawsuit against his college, an academic despaired over what he said was a false portrayal of his actions. His anguish proved too much to bear.
Dennis Prager believes teenagers are more open to conservative ideas than millennials. With PragerU, he’s making a play to get around their professors.
Dennis Prager believes teenagers are more open to conservative ideas than millennials. With PragerU, he’s making a play to get around their professors.
Fifty years after the death of Eliot’s purported muse, Princeton has unveiled hundreds of passionate — and deeply revealing — letters the poet wrote to her.
Fossils that some scientists thought to be a separate species were likely adolescent Tyrannosaurus rexes, a new study says.
The case of Joseph Henry Loveless, who sawed his way out of jail in 1916, is among the oldest solved using genetic genealogy.
The teenager, accused in the death of the Barnard student, exhibited troubling behavior at a detention center, New York City lawyers said.
Some students of color say that even as the university defends its use of race in admissions, it devalues their experiences and fails to retain professors who support them.
Giving the vaccine intravenously to monkeys provided 90% protection against tuberculosis. More testing is needed before humans can be inoculated that way.
The video was created to show off the University of Wisconsin. Instead, it set off a furor, and a reckoning over what it means to be a black student on campus.
Congress could do much more to protect Americans who have served their country from predatory for-profit colleges.
Zaosong Zheng, a promising cancer researcher, confessed that he had planned to take the stolen samples to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, and publish the results under his own name.
Title IX got women playing college sports. Now it’s time to let them lead.
Research found 85 percent more deaths among those of prime working age in places where car factories closed compared with where they stayed open.