Artist's interpretation of an ancient total solar eclipse. This illustration is based on artistic imagination and does not represent the exact appearance of the eclipse recorded in 709 BCE. An ...

It’s college application season. For high school seniors, it’s a time filled with drama. But this year, elite universities face a drama of their own. While colleges try to regroup from the loss of a ...

Residents in Fairfield and Bridgeport are objecting to United Illuminiating's plans to erect a series of steel monopoles up to 195 feet high in order to carry a new transmission line. Credit: United ...

Federal workers who become furloughed or lose their jobs as a result of the federal shutdown, now reaching nearly 10 days, are eligible to apply for unemployment benefits from the state. "Anyone can ...

The Connecticut Siting Council (CSC) delayed a final vote on Thursday on whether or not to approve the proposed United Illuminating construction in Fairfield County. The council was scheduled to vote ...

Last week’s initial unemployment claims report indicated that first-time jobless benefit claims suddenly spiked to the highest level in years. As the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) September 11 press ...

The year’s second total lunar eclipse saw Earth’s shadow obscure this weekend’s full moon as the home planet lined up perfectly between the moon and the sun. Watch The Virtual Telescope Project’s ...

Last November, Northwestern president Michael Schill gave an hourlong address at a meeting of the faculty senate, reportedly with more than 100 professors in attendance. The focus of his speech was ...

After the release of the July jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, many of the headlines focused on the big revisions of prior months’ numbers, and then on the president firing the head of ...

A Connecticut Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of several community groups and municipalities seeking to stop United Illuminating construction in Fairfield County. UI initially planned to ...

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that atheists in some of the world's most secular countries show an intuitive preference for religious belief over ...