Female chemistry PhD students are 50 per cent more likely to gain a permanent job in academia if their supervisor is a woman, a new study indicates.

Backers say Westlake University, in Hangzhou, will use its autonomy to challenge leading Western science and technology institutions.

Champlain College Online, a leader in career-focused adult higher education, today announced that it will reduce its online undergraduate tuition by 50 percent to $318 per credit, effective Fall 2018.

US President Donald Trump's allies are mounting an online campaign to discredit a forthcoming memoir by former FBI director James Comey.

You could kill a frog if you print a frog. Such is the conundrum of 3D printing, as some of the more commonly used printing materials are aquatically toxic if poured down the drain.

Many people can likely remember how expensive text books are in college, but Virginia Tech is trying to solve that.

Academics have predicted a crackdown on Confucius Institutes across the West, as the UK becomes the latest country to launch an investigation into the role and influence of the Chinese government-funded centres.

Nursing colleges add curricula to deal with a growing public health problem.

Protecting elephants from poachers in a reserve larger than Switzerland is no simple task.

Amazon says it does not eavesdrop on customers' conversations to target advertising at them, after it emerged it had patented "voice-sniffing" tech.