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This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

Newswise - Researchers at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., led by Chemistry & Biomolecular Science Professor Costel C. Darie, in collaboration with researchers from Columbia University, have now found the binding partner of TDF, a pituitary hormone that had previously been shown to reduce cancer progression in breast cancer cells, in prostate ... (more)

One day, when our children live on the Newt Gingrich Lunar subdivision , they will know just how watery the moon truly is.

Schreiber graduate Solomon Hoffman recently co-wrote the music and lyricsA for "The Varsity Show," which is billed as one of the oldest traditions at Columbia University, where Hoffman now studies.

Doctors from New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center are using tiny, tool-laden snakebots in surgical procedures in order to help identify diseases and perform operations.

Prominent French academic Richard Descoings, whose naked body was found in his New York City hotel room in early April, died of natural causes related to hypertension, the New York City Medical Examiner's Office said on Wednesday.

With the help of Columbia University law students, a Peruvian woman living with her wife in New York was granted asylum on May 15.

Reports say that 16-year-old Shouryya Ray may have solved a centuries-old math problem.

Parker Hutchinson is one of those nice guys you'd want to be friends with beyond Facebook.

In early May in front of the New York Maritime Museums along the Hudson River in Manhattan, dozens of people were queuing up in front of a tiger-striped truck.

Dr. Eduardo M. Ochoa, U.S. assistant secretary for postsecondary education, has been named as interim president of CSU Monterey Bay.

One of the wonderful things about Donald Trump is that he's an equal opportunity moron.

In 2005, Chloe Gilgan bet that obtaining a law degree would guarantee her a competitive salary and a steady career path.

The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas.

Hundreds of women entrepreneurs could swap the secrets of their success and learn how to grow their companies at a master class in small business at Columbia University's student center.

In this April 18, 2012, photo, Carnegie Mellon University professor Howie Choset, right, stands beside a robot as staff researcher Florinan Enner uses a controller to demonstrate how it climbs up a tubular armature at their lab on campus in Pittsburgh.

In a recent New Republic column, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy argues that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should retire for fear that if she "departs the Supreme Court with a Republican in the White House, it is probable that the female Thurgood Marshall will be replaced by a female Clarence Thomas." I would be surprised if ... (more)

Despite a long-held scientific belief that much of the wiring of the brain is fixed by the time of adolescence, a new study shows that changes in sensory experience can cause massive rewiring of the brain, even as one ages.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework.

Eboni Boykin spent most of her childhood moving from one homeless shelter to another with her mother in the St.