Chronicle of Higher Education: An over-arching ideal of the European Union is that citizens of the union’s 27 member countries have the freedom to live, learn, and work anywhere within the union’s borders. As the Chronicle‘s Aisha Labi reports, progress toward one aspect of that ideal—harmonizing the EU’s higher-education system—has bogged down. In particular, the 11-year-old Bologna Process has not yet led to significant mobility of students within the EU or to significant harmonization across the EU of the various kinds of university degree.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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