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A court in California recently ruled that the University of California, Berkeley must reduce the number of students it can accept for the upcoming school year. The university is working to find a way to permit students to study anyway.

The wreck of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship was found by a group of explorers who used high-tech search vehicles 3,000 meters below the Antarctic ice.

Disney World in Florida is offering Star Wars movie fans the chance to get involved in the action at a new experience.

In its report on climate change, a United Nations’ panel said if human-caused global warming is not limited, life on Earth will get worse in 127 ways in future decades. The report notes that climate change’s effect on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has caused a crisis.

Can money buy everything? Read about it in this classic American story, "Mammon and the Archer" by O. Henry.

N some parts of the U.S. so many teachers are out sick with COVID-19 that states are getting creative to fill the gaps. In New Mexico, for example, members of the National Guard are being called as fill-in teachers.

Over a year after permanently disabling comments on The Paulick Report, the comments section is back! Well, sort of. We can't fire up story comments again. The number of hours our staff was collectively losing in moderation was too great, and the few bad actors out there made it too labor-intensive to continue, even as we tried many different systems to combat them.

A recent rankings scandal involving the business school at Temple University in Pennsylvania prompts the question of whether students can trust college rankings.

There are over 1 billion people living in Africa, and many other Africans living around the world. But there were only six athletes representing Africa in this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics. Can the IOC get more Africans into the winter Olympics?

Schools in the United States are struggling to return to normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. But they are also not always able to operate at full strength because of criminals who work on computers.