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Heat-related deaths in New York City's borough of Manhattan may rise about 20 percent over the next decade, according to a new study.

A study by the National Science Foundation naming the top 10 universities receiving the most federal funding for research and development ranked UC San Diego in 8th place out of 896 colleges that received federal R&D money during the 2011 fiscal year.

From left to right are Russellville High School's Class of 2013 third-ranked student Chelsea Jenkins, Valedictorian Rebecca Orndorff, Valedictorian Kesi Neblett and Salutatorian Troy Adams.

Wang Xixin, deputy dean and professor of law at Peking University Law School, spoke at the memorandum of understanding signing ceremony held earlier this month.

The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority.

In his scholarship, Waltz asked the tough questions about the difficult and important issues.

Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white students from Iowa.

These have been some tough months. Terrorist bombings , mass shootings, continuing economic woes among the poor and middle class, political gridlock and ideological posturing - all have contributed to stress and strain.

Though they haven't faced too many annoying questions yet, there's one question the Montreal-based band Plumes is tired of people asking them: Where did they get their name? "This is only the second interview that we've done for this tour," said Geof Holbrook of Plumes.

With about half of the country still suffering from extreme drought, farmers and businesses in the Western United States are looking at another hot, dry summer.

Applications for the second annual T. Fellowship will be accepted from May 22, 2013 through August 1, 2013.

As a health nut and foodie, 36-year-old Shazi Visram had a problem with processed baby food.

Hour 1: What makes political cartoons stick with us after the headlines fade? We'll talk this hour with Victor Navasky , longtime editor of The Nation and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Ezra Koenig wanted to be clear about this: The frontman of Vampire Weekend was not comparing his band to the Beatles.

Working out is one of the best things you can do for your overall health, but a new Columbia University study confirms the idea that too much of a good thing can actually be bad.

There are many neurons, especially in brain regions that perform sophisticated functions such as thinking and planning, that react in different ways to a wide variety of things.

In a commencement address to business students at Columbia University, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson hailed the company's digital subscription strategy and dismissed skeptics who say media outlets can't reinvent themselves.

They do not correspond to a simple stimulus/response linkage, but arise from the networking of different neural circuits.

By James Hedberg for Columbia University. Artistic image illustration of butterfly departing from graphene moire pattern formed on the top of atomically thin boron nitride substrate.

A warmer climate means more extremely hot days in summer , and fewer extremely cold days in winter, meaning people are more likely to die in summer than they used to be, and less so in winter.