UNIVERSITIES were barely mentioned at the 2020 Summit in Canberra last weekend, but they can still take heart from its deliberations.

Extra years in school aren't paying off financially for many of Canada's young people, who are better educated but worse paid than people their age a generation ago.

RICHMOND, Va. (May 9, 2008) – Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have discovered how an antibiotic works to modulate the activity of a neurotransmitter that regulates brain functions, which eventually could lead to therapies to treat Alzheimer

A study by researchers in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center (LRC) provides a new framework for studying the effects of circadian disruption on breast cancer, obesity, sleep disorders, and other health problems.

Peter Wilcox Jones, the James E. English Professor of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his outstanding and continuing contributions in original research.