Since 2008, deep inside a mountain on a permafrost-crusted archipelago near the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been open for business, soliciting and accepting sample seed collections from partner seed banks around the globe.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday three key members of the national security team for his administration -- signaling he will make good on the hard-line agenda on which he campaigned.

More than 100 campus leaders urge Trump to take more forceful stand against "harassment, hate and acts of violence."

Senior academics and university administrators offer their top tips on how to ask that awkward question at the end of a job interview

Financial markets stayed closed and aircraft grounded as students in South Korea sat down on Thursday morning for the annual college entrance exam that could make or break their careers.

Scientist Veena Sahajwalla wants to create a swathe of miniature furnaces that will recover riches from your discarded cellphones.

It took less than three months for an online coding game to transform James Johnston's life.

Mike Pence has been tweeting a lot of criticism of Donald Trump. Not Mike Pence, the vice-president-in-waiting - but the owner of the name on Twitter.

With their formidable brain power and complex skill sets, academics would seem to have little to fear from the advance of machines now capable of doing certain human jobs.

Colleges don’t tell students that professors are being investigated for -- or even had been found guilty of -- harassment. Berkeley grad students demand change in this practice.