Elsevier’s successful court battle against sites providing unlawful access to millions of journal articles sends a message that publicly funded research has become a “corporate asset and private property”, according to a scholarly publishing expert.

Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack.

Low-cost solar cells produced in China have helped power the recent surge in the U.S. solar industry.

Academics have expressed concern about plans to expand a programme in the US which sees airline passengers asked to remove books from carry-on luggage.

A number of lower income students will have easier access to Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering thanks to a $5 million grant that will link the university to two community colleges.

Court agrees to hear case, reinstates ban except for foreign nationals -- including admitted students -- “who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.

A UK-born vice-chancellor has said that he will be forced out of his job in Australia by new visa restrictions in the country.

Postdoctoral student Yang Jian wants to change the way people buy rice in China.

Scientists in Canada have launched what is set to become the world's largest study of the effects of lack of sleep on the brain.

I was privileged to participate last week in the Corporate Eco Forum's annual confab — a remarkable event in which top sustainability professionals from our biggest and most forward-leaning corporations get together....