A Canadian firm has courted controversy with its claim to have built a practical quantum computer, a feat thought to be decades away.

Princeton University Press hopes to molt from a publisher of print into an organization with a wide variety of ebooks and apps.

The international community should stop chasing the chimera of a binding treaty to limit CO2 emissions.

Both the prosecutor and public defender in the case of a woman charged with phoning in bomb threats in an attempt to cancel Quinnipiac University's graduation ceremony asked that she be released without bail.

Uruguay will exempt marijuana production and sales from taxes in a bid to ensure prices remain low enough to undercut competition from black market pot smuggled in from Paraguay, according to consultants advising the government on a legalization plan.

The biggest risk that Middle East Respiratory Syndrome will become a global epidemic, ironically, may lie with globe-trotting healthcare workers.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that members of the Chinese military have engaged in the hacking of American businesses and entities ...

Last Monday, members of a New York group called the Satanic Temple joined Harvard students to hold a "black mass" at a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

There’s a reasonable chance that your response to the headline above is to say, “Hmmmm.”

From the Education Department making public a list of institutions under investigation for their handling of sexual assault allegations, to Columbia University students scrawling the names of their alleged rapists in bathroom stalls ....