Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright.

The Department of Education is calling on accreditation agencies to step up their review of colleges and universities, just as lawmakers are calling on the department to strengthen its review of accreditors.

In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world’s repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions.

Lost in the most consistently astonishing US presidential campaign since the 1864 Democrats ran on a platform of conceding the Civil War, is a disturbing question that seems to bring into doubt the very premise of the American experiment.

It’s not exactly a secret that professional athletes make a lot of money.

There is no doubt that China means business in sub-Saharan Africa.

One of the chatbots Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg featured in his widely watched keynote is glitchy.

A lawsuit against the American Studies Association argues its support for the academic boycott of Israel falls outside the scope of its mission.

Tigers are one of the world's most iconic animals, and yet also one of the most endangered.

A study measuring the extent of coral bleaching in Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef is branding some of the northern reef's problem as "extreme."