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Dogs and humans share 18 cancer mutation ‘hotspots’, Harvard study shows

A man who might seem rather snooty gradually reveals himself as cultured and restrained, rather like Moore’s art

Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives.

In America, the supreme court has struck down affirmative action; the French have been rocked by riots. Why can’t we solve racial inequality?

Imagine you were a black or Hispanic applicant who did not want to be given a racial/ethnic preference when applying to Harvard. Or you were an Asian American applicant who feared that your Asian background would be a hindrance. The obvious thing to do, beyond lying on your application, would…

After the affirmative action and student debt decisions, the investment bank just wrote a scathing report on the landscape of higher education.

Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship.

Voters decided 10 affirmative action-related ballot measures since 1996, opposing the practice eight times, & supporting it twice.

If the Supreme Court’s recent decision has the effect of focusing on the broken pipeline of K-12 education, it will have done far more for disadvantaged students than any racial preference program

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Thursday, after the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down affirmative action in higher education admissions in a case against Harvard University, President Joe Biden took aim at the old boys network of giving a boost to the kids of alumni, saying “Today, I’m directing the Department of Education to analyze what…