Education

Major American universities -- including Harvard, Princeton and Columbia -- have been forced to cancel classes because of the coronavirus and move lessons online, affecting tens of thousands

: Published: 12 March 2020

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, jailed in Iran since last year, has been transferred to a prison hospital after her health deteriorated following a hunger strike, her lawyer said Tuesday.

: Published: 25 February 2020

Women empowerment is high on the agenda for both government and business sectors worldwide. We speak to Veronica Vazeri, who empowers

: Published: 24 February 2020

Brazil's education minister has been ridiculed on social media for making a spelling mistake on Twitter.

: Published: 16 January 2020

Hong Kong's teachers say they are living in fear as the city's democracy protests rumble on, with some not daring to discuss the movement and others anxious they

: Published: 16 January 2020

New learning processes are improving fast. Online education, which seemed fantastic 5-10 years ago, is becoming a common thing. Thanks to it, we can get training

: Published: 13 January 2020

Education is becoming an increasingly crucial component of contemporary European life. New skills and higher qualifications become necessary elements of the

: Published: 08 January 2020

Q: We met at the European Conference of Iranian Studies in Berlin, a reputable and high-profile event. Please tell us about your Center for European Democracy

: Published: 25 July 2019

The European Medicines Agency, which is moving from Britain to Amsterdam because of Brexit, on Wednesday lost a court battle to cancel the lease on its London

: Published: 21 February 2019

Charles Darwin, Mr. Evolution himself, didn't know what to make of the fossils he saw in Patagonia so he sent them to his friend, the renowned paleontologist Richard Owen.

Owen was stumped too. Little wonder.

"The bones looked different from anything he knew," said Michael Hofreiter, senior author of a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications that finally situates in the tree of life what Darwin called the "strangest animal ever discovered".

"Imagine a camel without a hump, with feet like a slender rhino, and a head shaped like a saiga antelope," Hofreiter, a professor at the University of Potsdam, told AFP.

Macrauchenia patachonica -- literally, "long-necked llama" -- also had a long rubbery snout and with its nostrils high on the skull just above its eyes.

: Published: 28 June 2017

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