Smart robots, sensors and vision systems fortified with machine learning software are creeping into production at recycling facilities in Colorado, Japan and Europe.

It is a hugely ambitious - some might say megalomaniacal - project to create a new global currency.

A June survey shows just how much less college students value the Second Amendment than other constitutional liberties.

Former students at ITT Technical Institute will not have to pay $168 million they still owe on private loans from an affiliated lender to attend the now-defunct for-profit college, under a U.S. regulatory settlement announced on Friday.

Previously relegated to the political fringes, calls for broad student debt cancellation are now being taken seriously -- a sign of how new energy is being devoted to challenges for current student borrowers.

China is now on a par with the West in its capacity to service the higher education needs of its own population, a review suggests.

Leah Pearlman draws comics about ideas like "emotional literacy" and "self-love". When she began posting them on Facebook, her friends responded warmly.

Recent cases of persecuting Chinese and Chinese American scientists for alleged China ties show that the Red Scare has been spreading fast in US institutions of higher education, places that should be totally free of the government's political interference.

Swarthmore College offers a "Queering God" course, which focuses on, among other things, God's gender identity.

A Dutch engineering university is taking radical action to increase its share of female academics by opening job vacancies to women only.ender