Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

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Liam Desre, a teen from Kingston, Ontario, won a top prize at this year’s Canada-Wide Science Fair for his theory about the ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

Looking ahead: Expanded search strategies, improved computational power, and formal academic training are reshaping SETI into a mature scientific discipline. The timing is not accidental. SETI has ...

Hair may grow in a completely different way than scientists once believed. Instead of being pushed out from the root, new research shows that moving cells inside the follicle actually pull the hair ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...