Duke’s president decided to take down Robert E. Lee statue after less than two months on the job.

When Ruth Simmons became president of Brown University in 2001, one of her first initiatives was to tackle the institution’s slave history, which she said had “simply been erased”.

Cambridge University Press has reversed a decision to censor hundreds of articles at the request of the Chinese government after a backlash from academics and activists.

Cambridge University scientists believe they have solved the puzzle of where the so-called 'Frankenstein' dinosaur, the Chilesaurus, fits in the dinosaur family tree.

More than 100 leading robotics experts are urging the United Nations to take action in order to prevent the development of "killer robots".

One of my favorite things is to sit on a rock and listen to the sounds of a forest, knowing that someone else might do the same thing in the same place 100 years from now.

Vast quantities of methane hydrates — frozen deposits of natural gas found on the sea floor — exist worldwide.

New paper illustrates the brutal and sexist comments faced by women in economics, and likely other fields as well.

Academics should encourage their students to read tabloid newspapers and teach them that they are part of a “specific social milieu” of highly educated people

President Donald Trump on Friday fired Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the latest high-level White House shake-up, removing a powerful and controversial figure known for far-right political views.