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Warwick Arts CentreWarwick Arts Centre has been awarded a £1.9m Capital Kickstart grant as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund enabling the organisation to push forward with the completion of the renovation of the…

Tokyo Tech's Glocal Summer School gathered for an intensive three-day online session of lectures and groupwork three hours a day from September 15 to 17. The program, launched in 2019 and held twice a year, once again brought together…

On December 8, WU Zhaohui, President of Zhejiang University, met with a delegation led by His Excellency Mr. Laurent BILI, French Ambassador to China. The ambassador was accompanied by Mr. Benoît GUIDEE, French Consul General in Shanghai…

The percentage of women professors working at Dutch universities is 24.2%, according to the Women Professors Monitor 2020 presented by the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH) on 9 December 2020. With 28% women professors, Utrecht…

In 2019, University of Illinois student Issy Marquez had an eye-opening experience. She traveled to Washington D.C. with several professors to lobby on behalf of the National Humanities Alliance. Marquez, a triple major in English,…

Those from surface transport, such as car journeys, fell by approximately half at the peak of the COVID lockdowns.COVID lockdown causes record drop in CO2 emissions for 2020The global COVID-19 lockdowns caused fossil carbon dioxide…

Results suggest that, under stressful circumstances such as lockdown, allowing people to spend some time outdoors in nature may help reduce the likelihood of developing symptoms of depression and or anxiety. Access to nature important for…

Potential treatments for Covid-19 have been identified after the discovery of five genes associated with the most severe form of the disease.Image of coronavirus with DNA strands in the backgroundGenetic evidence is second only to…

Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals—including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds—follow a cycle of about 27 million years, coinciding with previously reported mass extinctions of ocean life, according to a new analysis…

Should scientists bring extinct species back to life? When Dan Lewis poses this question to his Caltech students at the beginning of a lecture, most of them say yes. By the end of the class, however, the majority have come around to his…