Women have been elected to municipal councils in Saudi Arabia for the first time after a ban on women taking part in elections was lifted.

Fleets of drones may one day soar the skies while delivering sneakers, pasta sauce, and basketballs that people order online.

Science has become much more collaborative and interdisciplinary in recent decades.

Christmas songs are all well and good, but have you ever wished that they had more of a higher education theme?

Numerous technologies exist to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and new companies are entering the field.

Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) issued an alert to some users warning them that state-sponsored hackers may have tried to obtain sensitive data from their accounts

Call it the Republican establishment's nightmare scenario.

When computer programmers in the 1970s chose the name "Isis" for their new information system, they were following a trend at the time to name such programs after Egyptian gods.

Close to 200 university professors in South Korea are to stand trial over charges that they fraudulently put their names to books written by other academics as part of a racket with publishing companies to sell more publications.

On Oct. 19, the White House announced the commitment of 81 companies to take action on climate change by signing the American Business Act on Climate Pledge ...