From top-end “bling” to expensive cars and high-end fashion, the mainland-led demand for luxury products and services in Asia has exploded over the last few years, leaving in its wake a critical shortage of talent.

The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, seeking to advance public safety protections while still addressing concerns the rules would be too burdensome for producers.

In an unprecedented arrangement that involves aspects of MOOCs and a major technology company's support, the Georgia Institute of Technology will soon begin offering an online master's degree in computer science at an unusually low cost.

Mounds of dirt decorated with fake flowers sit at the northern edge of the cemetery in this town about 80 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine, say US scientists.

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Many companies face a common problem: What to do with by-product or waste left over from the manufacturing process.

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U.S. News & World Report announced Tuesday that it was moving two more colleges to its "unranked" category because the institutions had submitted incorrect information. Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/15/another-college-admits-it-gave-us-news-incorrect-data#ixzz2TOqFyyYQ

As part of our learning and teaching strategy, the University of Sheffield has outlined a list of attributes and qualities we see in our graduates.