Coral reefs around the world are worth a staggering $172 billion dollars a year to the global economy. But the wealth of the oceans' reefs, and their amazing monetary value, is on the verge of being destroyed.
Distinguished scientist Stephen Hawking was said to be in a "comfortable" condition Tuesday after spending the night in hospital, Cambridge University said in a statement.
Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to a study of the potential impacts of climate change on the breeding and winter ranges of migrant birds.
So you want to be an entrepreneur? Today the first step is a solid business plan. Tomorrow it could be a bottle of pills. Cambridge University scientists made headlines last November by suggesting that an "entrepreneur drug" might someday replicate the brain chemistry seen in successful small business owners. Fortune Small Business checked in with Barbara Sahakian, Ph.D., who led the research, to hear her vision of the future.
As countries around the world plunge into recession, banks fail and companies go under, there are fears of another casualty amid the economic woes: Green business.
Coral reefs around the world are worth a staggering $172 billion dollars a year to the global economy. But the wealth of the oceans' reefs, and their amazing monetary value, is on the verge of being destroyed.
Distinguished scientist Stephen Hawking was said to be in a "comfortable" condition Tuesday after spending the night in hospital, Cambridge University said in a statement.
Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to a study of the potential impacts of climate change on the breeding and winter ranges of migrant birds.
So you want to be an entrepreneur? Today the first step is a solid business plan. Tomorrow it could be a bottle of pills. Cambridge University scientists made headlines last November by suggesting that an "entrepreneur drug" might someday replicate the brain chemistry seen in successful small business owners. Fortune Small Business checked in with Barbara Sahakian, Ph.D., who led the research, to hear her vision of the future.
As countries around the world plunge into recession, banks fail and companies go under, there are fears of another casualty amid the economic woes: Green business.
The student protester who hurled a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he was giving a speech at Cambridge University could face up to 6 months in prison or a £5,000 fine, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service told CNN Tuesday.
Britain's top student body has urged protesters to abandon nationwide university sit-ins over Israel's military actions in Gaza as others voice concern over increasing hostility towards Jewish students.
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his prestigious post at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space
If you want to learn about business then who better to hear from than a pair of the world's richest men? But what about an Oscar-winning film director? And how about a former spy chief?
Research into the mysterious green glow of a jellyfish earned three scientists this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Nobel Foundation announced Wednesday.
Three prizes worth $1 million apiece were awarded Wednesday to seven
scientists for their discoveries in neuroscience, astrophysics and the
study of vanishingly small structures
Universities are always looking for cash from their alumni (or anyone else with a big enough checkbook). But sometimes colleges are offered donations of another variety. Here are stories of six rather unusual gifts given to universities across the world.
A series of leading business schools have joined forces for a new project that aims to assist students a world away from the stereotypical privileged, male MBA student -- ordinary women in developing countries.
Asian business schools are getting better than ever -- that's the message from the latest Financial Times ranking of global MBAs, which lists three Asia-based programs in the top 20.
For the modern day MBA student the sector is venerated very nearly as much as that of private equity, while to the uninitiated it is almost as mysterious -- welcome to the world of the hedge fund.
As a species, we've hit the bedtime barrier. You can eat at your desk, socialize in the break room, and answer text messages on a date, but sooner or later, you're going to have to sleep.
What makes a good business school the best? According to a new survey, the extra quality which distinguishes the top MBA programs is quite simple - ensuring its graduates get the jobs they want.
Dr. Ken Yeang is the world's leading architect in ecological and passive low energy design. He has delivered over 200 built projects and his 'bioclimatic' towers have had an impact around the world, fusing high-tech and organic principles.
One of Earth's largest-ever megafloods broke apart a strip of land connecting what is now Britain and France, permanently separating them, a new study says
The environment, everyone now agrees, is a big issue for companies, something increasingly recognized by business schools, and chronicled previously on Executive Education (see here).
It would be a dream come true for the airline industry: a plane that uses up to 30 percent less gas to reach its destination, compared with today's jets. That's the promise of the blended-wing, a r...
It would be a dream come true for the airline industry: A plane that uses up to 30 percent less gas to reach its destination, compared with today's jets.
As well as the very obvious human costs, terrorism attacks have an all too real commercial dimension, something business schools are increasingly aware of.
Creativity is the buzzword in many a modern boardroom, yet some in business still complain that too many newly-minted MBAs are competent but uninspired, well-versed in the technical theory but lacking in imagination.
A scientist awarded a prize for keeping elderly mice alive beyond their normal life spans believes his work could help slow human aging and unlock cures for diseases associated with old age, such as cancer and heart disease.
Cheap titanium would be worth a lot of money to the automotive industry. Cars made with the lightweight metal would consume significantly less gas than steel cars, spew fewer emissions, and never r...
Wolfram Schultz, a neurophysiologist at the University of Cambridge in England, is so fastidious that he turns his office teacups upside-down on a towel when he's not using them, lest they get dusty. Schultz has the right temperament for someone who explores the microstructure of the brain, monitoring the electrochemical activity of one neuron at a time.
You can't blame John Todd for seeming a little cranky these days. The University of Cambridge geneticist has spent years searching for the 20 or so genes thought to play a role in type 1 diabetes. ...
"I knew nothing about Asia," says Laura Luckyn-Malone of her undergraduate days at Cambridge University, where she studied classics and law. What a difference two decades make: Now 42, she has beco...
Westerners eyeing business opportunities in Eastern Europe will find encouragement in Pope John Paul II's new 114-page encyclical. The Pope, once thought to have a slightly leftish political tilt, ...
SHELEME M. SENDABA, 41 NISSAN MOTOR CORP. Working for change has kept Sendaba on the move. In 1970 his anti-government reform efforts prompted him to leave his native Ethiopia. Exile led him to Chi...
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