ENDOWMENT TAX HITS WEALTHY UNIVERSITIES, BUT THEY'RE PAYING WALL STREET FAR MORE

This 1.4 percent tax on investment income will affect roughly 35 institutions including Ivy League universities Harvard, Yale and Princeton... READ MORE›

BITCOIN BARELY RATES A MENTION AMONG TOP RISKS TO FINANCIAL SYSTEM

Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon have publicly warned that cryptocurrencies are doomed to collapse, the Financial Stability Oversight Board isn't concerned yet... READ MORE›

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HARVARD RESCINDS ADMISSION OFFER TO 10 STUDENTS OVER OBSCENE FACEBOOK GROUP

The Harvard Crimson, the school's student newspaper, reported June 4, 2017, that Harvard revoked admission offers to at least 10 prospective freshmen over offensive online messages... READ MORE›

U.K. APPROVES TECHNIQUE TO MAKE BABIES FROM DNA OF 3 PEOPLE

The procedure is aimed at helping parents at risk of passing mitochondrial disease onto their children... READ MORE›

ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT GONORRHEA IS ON THE RISE

Antibiotic resistance is causing gonorrhea to become harder and sometimes impossible to treat, according to the World Health Organization WHO ... READ MORE›

HARVARD SOCCER TEAM SUSPENDED OVER SEX COMMENTS

Harvard University has suspended its men's soccer team after players made sexual comments about members of the women's team... READ MORE›

CALL TO SNOOP ON ANTIBIOTIC SCRIPTS

The suggested rules say doctors should spend more time explaining why antibiotics are unsuitable for many patients... READ MORE›

2) ROBOTS ARE EVEN THREATENING THE PIZZA DELIVERY GUY

I'm pretty sure it won't. 2 Robots Are Even Threatening the Pizza Delivery Guy In the future, will there be any jobs that robots can't do?... READ MORE›

'DISTURBING' DRUG-RESISTANT SUPERBUG GENE HAS BEEN DETECTED IN CANADA

In Canada, for example, ongoing hospital surveillance stemming back to 2010 has found 13 samples of colistin-resistant bacteria, according to Mulvey... READ MORE›

LYME DISEASE DOESN'T EXIST IN AUSTRALIA

Thousands of Australians claim to be suffering from tick-borne Lyme disease but a new report insists there is no evidence it exists in Australia... READ MORE›

MALIA OBAMAS GAP YEAR IS PART OF A GROWING AND EXPENSIVE TREND

Florida State University is among the latest campuses to start offering scholarships to gap-year students... READ MORE›

HARVARD CALLED 'LAZY, FAT, STUPID' IN ENDOWMENT REPORT LAST YEAR

The consulting firm McKinsey Co., in a wide-ranging examination, zeroed in on the endowment's benchmarks, or investment targets... READ MORE›

HARVARD PREPARES TO FIGHT FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT CASE IN COURT

Harvard University is fighting a lawsuit brought by students calling on it to divest from fossil fuels... READ MORE›

RAT POISON LINKED TO INDIA STERILISATION DEATHS, WITH DEATH TOLL EXPECTED TO RISE

Rat poison linked to india sterilisation deaths with death toll expected to rise... READ MORE›

INVESTORS ARE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TRUMP, WHICH IS BAD FOR THE BOND MARKET

Important shifts around real growth, around inflation, around policy all suggest that the move in bond yields we're seeing now can be sustained... READ MORE›

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, whose disease detectives have investigated duodenoscope-transmitted infections since 2013... READ MORE›

PFIZER ACQUIRES BAMBOO THERAPEUTICS TO BEEF UP GENE THERAPY ARSENAL

However, the discovery of better ways to carry replacement genes into cells is building optimism... READ MORE›

CEOS SALIVATE OVER TRUMP'S TAX-CUT PLANS, VAGUE AS THEY MAY BE

The administration reiterated its plan Wednesday for a one-time tax reduction for U.S. companies to repatriate cash from their foreign subsidiaries... READ MORE›

WORLD'S SMALLEST TAPE RECORDER MADE FROM GENETICALLY MODIFIED GUT BACTERIA

Researchers from the Columbia University Medical Centre have successfully converted a naturally occurring gut bacteria found in humans into the world's smallest data recorder... READ MORE›

ORIGIN OF MYSTERY DEEP-SEA MUSHROOM REVEALED

Instead, they belong to a class of floating jellyfish known as siphonophores, found along the Australian coast, and in the Indian and Pacific Oceans... READ MORE›

PROTECT CHILDREN STOP ALCOHOL SPONSORSHIP OF SPORT

Evidence shows that exposure to alcohol advertising leads young people to drink more, and to drink at an earlier age... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA HAS ONE OF HIGHEST RATES OF ASTHMA IN THE WORLD

It is not known why so many Australians suffer from asthma, with an estimated one in ten people affected, and many more also suffering wheezing symptoms... READ MORE›

DISNEYLAND SHUTS DOWN COOLING TOWERS AFTER LEGIONNAIRES' CASES

A dozen cases of the bacterial lung infection were discovered about three weeks ago, the Orange County Health Care Agency announced Friday... READ MORE›

MIGRANT CRISIS: CAN EUROPE FIND A SOLUTION? - FRANCE 24

THE INTERVIEW Kristalina Georgieva is Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank and a former European Commission Vice President... READ MORE›

MIGRANT CRISIS: CAN EUROPE FIND A SOLUTION? - FRANCE 24

THE INTERVIEW Kristalina Georgieva is Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank and a former European Commission Vice President... READ MORE›

MIGRANT CRISIS: CAN EUROPE FIND A SOLUTION? - FRANCE 24

THE INTERVIEW Kristalina Georgieva is Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank and a former European Commission Vice President... READ MORE›

MIGRANT CRISIS: CAN EUROPE FIND A SOLUTION? - FRANCE 24

THE INTERVIEW Kristalina Georgieva is Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank and a former European Commission Vice President... READ MORE›

SCIENTISTS EXPAND LIFE'S GENETIC CODE TO INCLUDE TWO ARTIFICIAL DNA BASES

World's First Semisynthetic Organism Created Scientists Expand Life's Genetic Code To Include Two Artificial DNA Bases... READ MORE›

MERCK TO TAKE ON SUPERBUGS WITH CUBIST PHARMA BUY

The Cubist deal is Merck's second big acquisition this year... READ MORE›

MENINGITIS-DEATH JURY ASKED TO DECIDE IF STEPHANS STRAYED FROM BEING 'REASONABLE AND PRUDENT' PARENTS

David Stephan, 32, and Collet Stephan, 35, were charged after their nearly 19-month-old son Ezekiel died after contracting bacterial meningitis in March 2012... READ MORE›

CAVEMAN DIET INCLUDED WOOLLY RHINO, PINE NUTS

Scientists got a sneak peek into the kitchen of three Neanderthals by scraping off the plaque stuck on their teeth and examining the DNA... READ MORE›

WORLD'S OLDEST PLANT-LIKE FOSSILS FOUND IN INDIA, COULD BE RED ALGAE

Photo Stefan Bengtson The oldest-known red algae fossil till now was dated to about 1.2 billion years ago, making the Indian specimens 400 million years older... READ MORE›