The online course pool Semester Online is growing again after Wake Forest University this month decided to join ed-tech company 2U’s consortium.

The birds that have come to be known as Darwin's finches have long intrigued students of evolution.

A fleet of orbiting X-ray telescopes that includes NASA's Swift orbiting observatory, which is controlled by Penn State, has been used by an international team of scientists in the discovery of a "millisecond pulsar" star with a dual identity

Working from home might seem to be the ideal remedy for tensions between your career and personal life.

Duke University announced Monday that, despite a new law in North Carolina, guns are prohibited on its campus.

In 1998, Hong Yang, then a brand-new assistant professor of science and technology at Bryant University, proposed a course on environmental studies in China to include an optional three-week summer travel component.

A new calling feature in Apple's latest operating system threatens billions of dollars of revenue that network operators such as Telstra, Optus and Vodafone receive from mobile voice calls.

High-performance Italian sports cars have been the inspiration for Australia’s latest solar-powered racing vehicle

Abdul Razzaq Baloch worked nights. After dinner, he would start his shift as a proofreader at the Daily Tawar, a newspaper published on a shoe-string from a cramped office in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital.

Over the past several years, many companies have been experimenting with ways to encourage more sustainable lifestyles ...