Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential component of their lives, a new study suggests.

ANN ARBOR, Mich - Consumer confidence continued to improve in January due to positive news about potential job gains, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

All images from the Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection in the UC San Diego Mandeville Special Collections Library - "So There Will Be No Forgetting: Images from the Spanish Civil War," an exhibit of materials from the Mandeville Special Collections Library's Southworth Collection, will be on view at UC San Diego's Geisel Library from January 23 through May 11, 2012.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - As the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution approaches on Jan. 25, sociologist Mansoor Moaddel is available to discuss trends in religious, political and cultural values in Egypt and other Arab countries.

Guantánamo ten years on - necessity or troublesome legacy? - In 2002, the United States of America opened a detention camp at a military base on a part of Cuba.

Tomorrow we launch a series of 12 articles by Cambridge researchers who tell us about the unfamiliar places where they've spent the night in the course of their work.

A new study from The Australian National University shows that foreign direct investment (FDI) both into and out of China is improving economic stability and driving development in Asia and the Pacific.

A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.

Professor David Goodman, Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney, will speak about Chinese perspectives on globalisation at Leeds on 1 February 2012.

He looked at the technological revolution unfolding around him and recognized the possibility for new kinds of social networks, and the insight catapulted him to the pinnacle of his field and changed popular culture forever.

A successful violence prevention model developed at Cardiff University is set to be implemented in the Dutch capital Amsterdam.

20 Dec 2011 - Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other.