There’s always been something fantastical about imagining the cities of the future.

As populist, traditionalist politicians make waves across Europe and the US, they have found a new foe in the academy: gender studies.

A newly-discovered species of dinosaur has been named after one of the monsters in "Ghostbusters," Zuul, according to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.

First, it was a full-page ad in The New York Times signed by companies such as Apple, Morgan Stanley and Unilever.

The University of Alabama and the city of Tuscaloosa are implementing a new technology that notifies police in the campus area within seconds if gunfire is heard nearby.

More than 100 elite private high schools aim to replace traditional transcripts with competency-based, nonstandardized documents -- with no grades. They plan to expand to public high schools, with goal of completely changing how students are evaluated.

One of the trickiest aspects of climate science is figuring out if a particular heat wave, flood, or drought was made more likely or severe by climate change.

Effective teaching has a lasting impact on students but is rarely recognized in their course evaluations, according to an analysis, released on Tuesday, of nearly 340,000 mathematics students at the University of Phoenix.

Many academics bemoan the often thankless task of peer-reviewing other scholars’ research manuscripts before they are published in journals.

A new haul of ancient human remains has been described from an important cave site in South Africa.