When colleges discuss general education reforms or announce curricular revamps, it's common to hear professors talk of the need to replace "cafeteria-style" approaches.

Twelve universities have been named among the UK’s most gay-friendly places to work.

An unprecedented global wave of virulent fungal infections is decimating whole groups of animals ...

Humanity is at risk from a series of dangers of our own making, according to Prof Stephen Hawking.

White-tailed deer, though cute and wide-eyed like Bambi, can wreak havoc on the land around them. And no one knows this better than Jack Ray.

The solar system may host a ninth planet that is about 10 times bigger than Earth and orbiting far beyond Neptune

The angry emails came in a flurry to the president's office at Wheaton College, a small, picturesque campus near Boston.

Is a valid strategy to improve a college's retention rate to encourage students at risk of dropping out to do so in the first few weeks

As researchers get older the quality of their publications drops, a study has found, suggesting that more funding should be given to promising younger scientists.

So much for globalization. The consensus among 1,400 chief executives of the globe’s largest companies is that the world is growing more fragmented and unstable ...