Some lawmakers are making it more difficult for students to vote, but advocacy groups and colleges are pressing ahead with registration campaigns.

Vaping can damage vital immune system cells and may be more harmful than previously thought, a study suggests.

Environmental sustainability is a hot corporate trend right now, with one company after another banning plastic straws, offsetting carbon emissions, and taking other steps toward being better planetary stewards.

Our use of data is subject to what we call the "drunk under the streetlamp" problem: An obviously intoxicated man is on his hands and knees on the sidewalk, under a streetlamp.

Mental health experts in West Virginia, US, are turning to a video-calling "owl" to run opioid treatment sessions.

On Saturday night, the provincial discipline inspection commission and supervisory commission of Central China's Henan province released the results of their investigation into claims by four students that their answer sheets in the national college entrance exam (gaokao) might have been exchanged with those for lower points.

Staff say they are having to put in extra hours to bring master’s students’ skills up to scratch

Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is rolling back another Obama-era regulation that was meant to protect students from abusive practices by for-profit schools and colleges.

As a candidate, Donald Trump would famously boast that if elected, he'd "surround myself only with the best and most serious people" -- adding: "We want top-of-the-line professionals."

Despite lingering skepticism about the future of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the technology behind them is becoming a focus of university teaching and research.