Four of the world’s major research university groups are to form an international network as a parallel organisation to the Global Research Council of Science and Engineering Funding Agencies ...

Police evicted two dozen Amazon natives on Friday from an old Indian museum that will be demolished to clear areas adjacent to Brazil's legendary Maracana soccer stadium, the main venue for next year's World Cup.

The space rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago and is widely implicated in the end of the dinosaurs was likely a speeding comet.

Several millions of students will enter higher educational institutions in the next one decade. The Human resources development ministry wants to double the gross enrolment ratio in higher education by 2020

Most people who are not straight white men would probably smirk at the idea that straight white men feel alienated in the higher education workplace.

The world’s largest living species, native to California’s Sierra Nevada, faces a two-pronged risk from declining snowpack and rising temperatures.

What does conservative environmentalism look like? We know there are conservatives and Republicans that "care about the environment," but what do they want to do about it?

A pre-Viking woolen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for archaeology

Tracking the epidemic of smalltown corruption that has crippled Spain — and Europe with it.

There was one self-labeled millennial here for a robust discussion on how technology and social media are changing the way college students think and communicate -- or, at least, one who was brave enough to speak up.