A long line of students stood outside a Beijing Normal University building on a recent winter's night. The young people braved the chill while waiting patiently to enter the venue for the start of a highly anticipated lecture. Outside of the campus, hundreds of thousands of viewers waited for the live broadcast of the lecture online.
What would happen to the gravitational wave if it's fast enough to reach the edge of the expanding universe?
After seven years in journalism, Li Ying decided to strike it out on her own.
UNITED NATIONS - Despite children's massive online presence, too little is being done to protect them from the perils of the digital world and to increase their access to safe online content, the United Nations Children's Fund says in its annual flagship report, which was released earlier this month.
LONDON - Britain's interior ministry, the Home Office, said on Dec 18 it plans to extend a streamlined visa processing program for international master's students. It follows a pilot project, now in its second year, at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bath and Imperial College London.
HANGZHOU - The Jack Ma Foundation earlier this month announced a new plan to invest at least 300 million yuan ($45 million) to encourage graduates of normal schools to teach in rural areas over the next 10 years.
LONDON - Oxford Dictionaries recognized the power of the millennial generation earlier this month with its 2017 word of the year: youthquake.
It would seem that Prince has been spending his time in the great beyond whispering sweet nothings into the ears of the color gods. That has to be the reason. Because in yet another nod to the legacy of the Purple One (and David Bowie and Jimi Hendrix) and as an acknowledgment of life's great complexities - creativity, originality, ingenuity, the cosmos, intuition, the third-eye chakra and the depth of the unknown - Pantone has chosen what it calls ultra violet as its color of the year for 2018.
LONDON - British astronomers have come up with a new set of constellations inspired by modern-day figures such as Harry Potter and Usain Bolt in an attempt to teach children about the structure of the universe.
French artist Timothee Dufresne has turned to Chinese characters to explore art.
There are those times of desire, need, intense need. ...We stare wantingly at the smartphone on a desk or end table waiting - nay begging - to be picked up.
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