Each time SolarCity sells a megawatt of solar power in the United States, it lights up a school in Central America or Africa by installing solar-based electricity — which amounts to 1,000 schools this year.

The rise of open-access publishing, combined with pressure on academics to get published, has caused a spectacular increase in the number of articles spewed out by “predatory” journals ...

Rapidly rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increased lightning strikes are leading to ever-larger wildfires in the northern forests ...

I have just read the news that Plymouth University has appointed Judith Petts as its new vice-chancellor.

In January, high school students as young as freshmen will have the opportunity to engage with several colleges — including Pomona, Stanford and Caltech ...

Free energy from the air.

James Sallis, a novelist who may be the most famous faculty member at Phoenix College, has for many years taught as an adjunct at the community college.

There is no shortage of jokes about the German language.

Cities around the world are growing faster than ever before.

There was, first of all, the matter of what to call him. “Dr.-Almost Carvalho” tumbled out of the interviewer’s mouth.