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Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.

A climate scientist wonders if the Earth system has now breached a tipping point.

UK health service will not gain commercial benefit from future Amazon products using its data

Universities are increasingly recording lectures, but academics are wary of being spied on or made obsolete.

The market model in higher education has created an intellectual precariat who are right to fight back.

Centuries of female exclusion has meant women's diseases are often missed, misdiagnosed or remain a total mystery.

Bambang Hero Saharjo has received death threats for testifying against companies. 

Universities have a legal obligation to encourage voter registration. This has prompted an angry reaction in some areas.

Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?

Funding for blue skies research is falling in favour of work aligned with the government's strategic priorities.

Letter warns immigration rules may damage UK universities' ability to attract global talent

The Harvard professor on science and scepticism - and why climate deniers have run out of excuses.

The Nasa craft is the second to travel beyond heliosphere but gives the most detailed data yet.

The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists.

We must apply the three Rs to plane travel: replace if possible, reduce to the essential, and refine to make it worthwhile.

Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice

The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. A study found evidence of racial bias in one widely used algorithm, such that black patients assigned the same level of risk by the algorithm are sicker than white patients.

The long read: A surge in anxiety and stress is sweeping UK campuses. What is troubling students, and is it the universities' job to fix it?

Research suggests AI able to interpret medical images using deep learning algorithm.

We are in the middle of a climate breakdown, and all they can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth, says climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Six whistleblowers and ex-government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury climate science - and why they won't stay quiet.

EU-backed research projects were slashed after Switzerland voted to curb immigration. The UK should take note.

The UK government’s announcement of its plans to offer extended post-study work visas for international graduates of UK universities has received an unusual response - unalloyed praise from the higher education sector.

Our profession has been great at raising awareness. But this alone won't succeed against the might of the oil and gas lobbyists.

Congo results show good survival rates for patients treated quickly with antibodies.

Universities fear chaos in September as private company struggles with workload.

Numerous unsung women, from computer engineers and mathematicians to secretaries and seamstresses, helped put a man on the moon. Here are the stories of some of those women.

As lecturers, we're protesting today to persuade the university to pay its PhD teaching staff proper wages

Casual contracts causing extreme levels of personal and financial hardship, union claims.

From mentoring to focus groups ethnic minority academics and students are under pressure to close the 13% attainment gap.