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The University of Melbourne today highlighted the importance of a transparent, robust academic peer review process in delivering research grants.

At 1.30am on the morning of 25 September 1917, 22 military officers detained at a prisoner of war (POW) camp at Sutton Bonington escaped through a secret tunnel and dispersed into the countryside.

The University of Chicago has a long history of field-defining scholarship in economics. Thirty scholars affiliated with the University have won Nobel Prizes for their groundbreaking research in economics -ranging from the study of society to the intersection of law and economics.

25 October 2018 The number of people with multiple long-term conditions, known as multimorbidity, is rising internationally, putting increased pressure on health care systems, including the NHS.

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The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) is celebrating ten years of influencing policy and debate. A collaboration of five Welsh universities (Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, South Wales and Swansea), WISERD has carried out a decade of pioneering research, providing important insights into the social and economic challenges facing Wales.

Government officials and Caltech scientists gathered at the  Caltech Seismological Laboratory  on October 17 to declare ShakeAlert-an earthquake early warning system for the three states along the West Coast-"open for business.

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As life expectancies in industrial countries get longer, qualified nursing care workers are in increasingly short supply.

In the 1960s and 70s, at issue was the smog-laden air in and around Los Angeles, and California's use of emerging science to pioneer new regulatory controls. Today, the issue goes beyond the cleaner b

The latest additions are what university planners say may be a growing number of campus roundabouts, which are designed to improve safety for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists.

A £7m investment in research will help Cardiff University scientists play a key role in developing cleaner, greener industrial processes.

Deborah Blum's new book explores the unlikely origins of food and drink regulation in the U.S. Milk may seem as wholesome a drink as there is, but it was not always so.

The region's housing crunch is proving to be a challenging issue as Stanford continues discussions with the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on the university's proposed General Use Permit, which forecasts facility needs through 2035.

A University of Melbourne website that helps connect people who grew up in institutional care in Australia between 1920 and 1989 with their archival records has won a major international award.

McGill University today announces it will co-develop with Xebec Adsorption Inc. (TSXV: XBC) a prototype reactor to produce Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) using the Power-to-Gas (P2G) process which combines electricity generated by renewable sources and CO2 generated from waste.