Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has released an encrypted chat service, called MegaChat, to compete with the Microsoft-owned Skype.

While other U.S. universities have built branch campuses abroad, the University of California at Berkeley is betting it can create a global higher education hub in its own backyard.

Burning wood pellets to produce electricity is on the rise in Europe, where the pellets are classified as a form of renewable energy.

In the wake of a shooting on the Florida State University campus just a few miles away and after an hour of sometimes-emotional debate, a House panel Tuesday approved a bill that would allow concealed weapons to be carried at colleges and universities.

Fifteen California community colleges should be able to offer four-year degrees starting as soon as next year

From a distance this may look like an ordinary tree, but get closer and you will discover it is actually a power generator.

In an age when mankind can send robots to look for life on Mars, why can't science stop so many forms of life from being wiped out here on Earth?

Eighteen Nobel laureates have written to Saudi academics, urging them to publicly oppose the jailing and caning of a blogger ...

The United States is poised on the cusp of a revolution in fighting food waste and hunger, if we can just cut through the red tape.

Recognizing the importance of two-year colleges in fueling the state’s workforce and economy, Gov. Jerry Brown is recommending an 8 percent increase for California's 112-campus community college system