Chronicle: By fall next year, Songdo Global University Campus in Incheon, South Korea, will begin enrolling its first undergraduates. How many arrive at the brand-new campus from outside South Korea is an open question. The university’s budget, as well as those of its international partners, has been hit by the global recession. As the Chronicle‘s David McNeill reports, two of those partners, Stony Brook University and North Carolina State University, have put their participation on hold.
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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