Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

Une vidéo montrant Thierry Devimeux, préfet de la Guadeloupe, demandant à un pêcheur de ne pas lui parler créole, évoquant un “manque de respect”, suscite une vive polémique dans l'archipel. Mais derr...

Hat einer der bekanntesten Aufklärer der Welt seine weisen Worte gar nicht selbst verfasst? Deutsche Wissenschaftler wollen den Beweis dafür gefunden haben.

Reading for pleasure – from tucking into a Jane Austen classic to devouring a Heartstopper graphic novel – is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia, ...

Exclusive: New research identifies thousands who profited from trafficking enslaved Africans and traces some financial links to institutions still operating today

AI can transform society. But only if society has a say in shaping it, writes Hetan Shah, Chief Executive of The British Academy.

Universities are cutting the skills they need most, then paying to rebuild them. Universities are cutting the skills and capabilities they need most, only to pay to rebuild them later, according to ne...

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Abstract. Daniel Gordon in his monograph on Citizens without Sovereignty explored how, in eighteenth-century France, sociability enabled those without powe

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing bu...

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.