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Bees - key pollinators for one-third of all plant food crops - have declined over the last 50 years, with die-offs in recent years stumping scientists and making headlines.

Books may not survive in their current form as reading habits change in the digital age, an expert has warned.

The treasures of Siegfried Sassoon's personal archive, including his diary recounting the first day on the Somme, and the telegram summoning him to HQ after his 'Soldier's Declaration', have gone on public display for the first time. Dream Voices: Siegfried Sassoon, Memory and War , opens today at Cambridge University Library, after its £1.25m acquisition of the archive held by Sassoon's relatives.

CHAMPAIGN, lll. Steering clear of crocodiles and navigating around massive submerged trees, a team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient Maya.

Arts 20 Jul 10 Ten endangered species have been given common English names, after the results of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's 'Name a Species' competition results were announced on Saturday (17 July).

The ancient and sometimes mysterious doors of Cambridge University will open to the public this September, giving thousands the chance to glimpse into hidden corners of both the University and city as a whole.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steve Bradt 617. Jeremy Rau Named Professor of Linguistics and the Classics Cambridge, Mass.

The complex nature of Italy's colonial past and the reluctance with which it has been viewed in contemporary culture have ordinarily led academics to shy away from the subject.

A remarkable piece of Neolithic rock art, unlike anything previously found in Eastern England, has been unearthed in the Cambridgeshire village of Over. The hand-sized artefact, which could date back to 2,500 BC, was found by a participant in a geological weekend course which was being run by the University of Cambridge's Institute for Continuing Education.

An Anzac soldier killed in the First World War is to be reburied with his fallen comrades almost a century after he died on a Belgian battlefield, after archaeologists from the University of Birmingham helped to identify his remains. Kirsty Nichol, of Birmingham Archaeology and member of the University's Centre for Great War Studies and No Man's Land - The European Group for Great War Archaeology), was part of the team that, in August 2008, recovered the body of an unknown Australian soldier missing since the Battle of Messines at St Yvon, on June 8, 1917.

Durham University celebrates return of Shakespeare First Folio Durham University is celebrating after a rare 17 th Century First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was returned more than ten years after being stolen.

It isn't everyone who has a set of holes named after them but then John Aubrey was one of the most intriguing characters to surface at Oxford University in the 17th Century. I've blogged before about the role Oxonians played in the founding of the Royal Society 350 years ago. And, whilst he is most famous for his rediscovery of the prehistoric monument at Avebury (and Stonehenge's Aubrey holes ), Aubrey was also a founding fellow of the RS.

There are few activities as exciting for children as a treasure hunt - and local parents and carers looking for ways to keep children entertained over the summer need look no further than the Cambridge Museums for a journey of discovery right on the doorstep.

BERKELEY — The World Cup soccer final is this Sunday, July 11, and there will be no shortage of international fans at UC Berkeley watching the match between the Netherlands and Spain.

Cambridge, Mass. July 9, 2010 - Mary Lewis, a historian of modern France whose work has shed new light on French immigration and imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has been named professor of history at Harvard University.

A University of Manchester cancer specialist has been appointed Professor of Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Medicine by the Teenage Cancer Trust.

An Oxford academic has challenged the public to help create the world's largest archive of online material concerned with Anglo-Saxon England, after being inspired by the interest shown in last year's discovery of the Staffordshire hoard. The Archive, called Project Woruldhord (Old English for 'world-hoard'), is being launched this month by Dr Stuart Lee, of the Faculty of English and Computing Services.

We just don't all come from Adam and Eve. We come from the simple dirt that we walk upon. And out spirits, and our Baiame, our makers, it's all interconnected there.

Have you ever cancelled a Facebook status update when you thought about who would see it, or switched off your phone to avoid an awkward call? Researchers at the University of Sussex are working on how we can engage with the digital revolution without holding our lives up for scrutiny.

Archaeologists at the University of Birmingham are heading to Stonehenge to lead the world's biggest-ever virtual excavation.

An intensive professional training course has been launched for some of the young British Muslims most likely to become the faith's next generation of spiritual leaders.

The University of Sydney participates in more international research partnerships than any other Australian university, and is the world's fifth most frequent collaborator with Chinese universities, according to new research. Drawing on data from Thomson Reuters, the University's Research Analysis and Data Strategy team shows that the University of Sydney participated in 36,058 international collaborations, more than any other Go8 university.

'One death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic': Stanford book tells the tale of the ill-starred life of Nikolai Bukharin, the Bolshevik From beginning to end, Stalin was a deadly element in the Bukharin marriage - a saga that ended in front of a firing squad.

Hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century Londoners will be brought to life by a unique online resource, which will be made available to the public from today (28 June 2010).