Google's DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without help from human players.

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has made key changes to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which is used to measure success rates in higher education.

New study pushes back on decades of studies suggesting that scientific productivity peaks early and declines thereafter.

UK universities must ensure that their policies on borderline scores do not in effect lower the thresholds for degree classifications, sector bodies say.

Collective action is a key component of water stewardship as framed by organizations such as the Alliance for Water Stewardship and the CEO Water Mandate.

Google has decided to remove an update to Maps that shows users how many calories they would burn if they walked to their destination.

Half of all black students who took out federal student loans defaulted in 12 years, according to two analyses of new federal data on student borrowers.

"We built a lab with glass walls. That was on purpose," Ryan Bethencourt, program director for the biotech accelerator IndieBio, told me as we sat in the company's wide open basement workspace in the South of Market district of San Francisco.

Eric Tarczynski spent two years traveling around the country to put together a team of about 100 students at 50 campuses.

Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa.