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World rankings: top 10 universities around the globe
Britain's leading higher education publication, The Times Higher Education, today released its 2012 reputation rankings for universities worldwide. Here is a list of the top 10.
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The world's top universities in 2011
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World's top 10 universities, Harvard leads again
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The world's Top 10 universities
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Tropical lake on Titan? Surprising find could solve moon's methane mystery.
Scientists have wondered whether some unseen process replenishes the lakes of liquid methane on Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. A newly found lake suggests intriguing possibilities.
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NASA's new telescope to scan skies for black holes (+video)
Scheduled to launch from a Pacific atoll Wednesday, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuStar, will search for X-ray emissions around black holes.
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What goes on at the edge of a black hole? NASA launches NuSTAR to find out. (+video)
NASA will launch the orbiting X-ray observatory NuSTAR Wednesday in hopes of plunging deeper into the secrets of black holes and supernovae.
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Mars rover to try out new strategy for finding alien life
Unlike previous missions to the Red Planet, the Mars Curiosity rover will focus on Martian geology.
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How NASA's Curiosity rover could 'discover' Teflon on Mars (+video)
Teflon from the drill on NASA's Curiosity rover could contaminate Martian soil, say scientists, creating misleading evidence of an ancient alien civilization that had developed nonstick cookware.
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NASA's NuSTAR telescope will hunt black holes
The space agency's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is slated to launch June 13 from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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Death Valley used as stand-in for Martian landscape (+video)
A project scientist for NASA's huge Curiosity rover is leading a handful of journalists on a trip to Death Valley, whose geology and vistas resemble Mars in some places. The goal is to help reporters get a better idea of the science Curiosity will be doing when it touches down on the Red Planet on the night of Aug. 5.
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Entering the job market? Your education matters more than ever.
The unemployment figures don't lie: The Great Recession accelerated a long-term trend in the job market, in which education and skills are the best guarantees for work and good pay.
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World rankings: top 10 universities around the globe
Britain's leading higher education publication, The Times Higher Education, today released its 2012 reputation rankings for universities worldwide. Here is a list of the top 10.
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Amazing planets: mini solar system, 'Star Wars' lookalike among new finds
The catalogue of newly found planets is becoming richer by the day. By one new estimate, virtually all the billions of stars in the Milky Way could have a planet orbiting them.
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Scientists discover three smallest alien planets yet
All three exoplanets are thought to be rocky like Earth. However, their closeness to their star makes them too hot to be in the habitable zone, the area around a star neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface.
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Higgs boson: What scientists are saying about the 'God particle'
Scientists at CERN say that they are closing in on the Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic particle that, if discovered, could help explain why particles have mass. Here's what some of the world's leading physicists have to say about the announcement.
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Extrasolar planet: 18 new huge alien planets discovered
Extrasolar planet discoveries have boosted by 50 percent the number of known planets orbiting massive stars. Extrasolar planets are those outside of our solar system.
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For NASA's rover Curiosity, it's 'Mars or Bust!'
NASA's rover Curiosity lifted off Saturday for its 354-million-mile cruise to Mars. After its nearly nine-month trip, the six-wheeled robot will descend to begin studying the environment for a better understanding of the red planet's history.
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Mars science lab 'Curiosity' to launch 'extraterrestrial real-estate appraisal'
After a decade of "following the water," planetary scientists want to see if water co-existed with other critical environmental conditions that could have allowed simple forms of life to emerge.
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Where did Earth's water come from? Comet Hartley 2 offers new clues.
The composition of comet Hartley 2 suggests that comets might have been a bigger source of Earth's water than previously thought. It's also challenging models of solar system formation.
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India earthquake: What makes the region so volatile?
A magnitude 6.9 Himalayan quake on the border between India and Nepal, highlights the extreme hazard the region faces as enormous patches of Earth's crust crash into each other.
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College rankings: Princeton, Harvard best colleges
College rankings from U.S. News & World Report put five Ivy League schools in Top 10 best colleges. University of Maryland-Baltimore is up-and-comer in college rankings.
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Do you have to be a math whiz to understand 'Best College' rankings?
U.S. News & World Report's just-released college rankings pass judgment on more than 1,000 institutions, using an exhaustive three-step process. But don't worry, we won't test you on it.
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The world's top universities in 2011
For the second year in a row, the United Kingdom’s University of Cambridge topped America’s Harvard University in the annual QS ranking of the world’s top universities. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a UK-based higher education consulting firm, released its much-anticipated list of the top 300 today. Academic reputation – a subjective assessment – accounts for 40 percent of the score that determines where schools end up on the rankings. You can get a closer look at the methodology here. This year’s top 10 dropped American universities Princeton and California Institute of Technology in favor of two other leading US schools. You can check out last year’s top 10 here and explore why QS’s rankings caused such a stir.
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Difference Maker Naomi Oreskes: fierce defender of climate change science – and scientists
Naomi Oreskes has become a leading voice in defense of the science underlying global warming and the scientists who are researching it.
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Another revolution afoot in Egypt: top-notch science
Egypt has launched a national project akin to the Aswan Dam. It's called the City of Science and Technology – part Caltech, part Max Planck Institutes in Germany, part Tech Park in Turkey. Investment in education is the best way to cure fanaticism.
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Higgs boson: Was the 'God particle' found?
Higgs boson, aka, the "God particle" is a subatomic particle that is presumed to bestow mass on all other particles. An internal note from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has scientists buzzing.
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Did the universe begin as a slender thread?
A new framework for the universe's formation suggests that it began as a single thready line, then evolved into a plane, and only then the three-dimensional space we now inhabit. This could simplify sticky cosmological questions, including dark matter and gravity waves.
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