The organization that oversees the training of young doctors recommended Friday that first-year physicians in hospitals be allowed to work 24-hour shifts — eight hours longer than they are permitted now.

Don't kill the messenger; Twitter channeled plenty of political poison in the 2016 presidential contest, but it also served as an organizing platform and a therapeutic outlet on a global scale.

Many academic leaders fear the president-elect could scare off foreign students, encourage discord on campuses and promote the anti-intellectualism that won him broad support from non-college-educated males.

Nearly a quarter of Americans will live in areas where recreational marijuana use is legal if voters approve initiatives on Tuesday permitting the recreational use of cannabis in California, Massachusetts and three other states.

Language experts have hit out at a professor’s “unwarranted” and “premature” dismissal of linguistic bias against academics who speak English as a second language.

Ancient feeding marks from hungry insects in South American leaf fossils are shedding new light on the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Hocking College has pulled in grant funding for new courses, balanced its budget and calmed a campus that was filled with student protests a year ago.

New company hopes to increase number of community college transfers by offering a marketplace for students and four-year institutions to better understand degree paths.

To the outrage of Donald Trump and his supporters, the FBI says it has found no evidence of criminality in a newly-discovered trove of emails linked to Hillary Clinton

Every Wednesday in the heart of the Syrian capital, a group of 9th graders meet for a debate club with a difference.