Oxford University has borrowed £200 million ($430m) to build world-class science facilities and renovate historic buildings.

Sprouts, grass, and flowers are blossoming from Chinese people's heads -- and nobody quite knows why.

In a world where machines can do many things as well as humans, one would like to hope there remain enclaves of human endeavour to which they simply cannot aspire.

We're teaching grad students to want teaching jobs that no longer exist.

Shari Cayle, 75, called "Miracle Mama" by her family ever since she beat back advanced colon cancer seven years ago, is still undergoing treatment and living alone.

A cloak of invisibility may be common in science fiction but it is not so easy in the real world.

Japan's upper house of Parliament is poised to pass the first major reinterpretation of the country's pacifist constitution since the end of World War II ...

The government has for the first time publicly named universities that have hosted speakers voicing views that are “contrary to British values” as it introduces a duty on institutions to counter “extremist” speakers on campus.

Each year, in the largest salmon run in the world, an estimated 30 million sockeye salmon migrate into the rivers and lakes of Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia renamed Georgia Regents University as Augusta University.