Comments about NFL player who started national anthem protest cost a Concordia (Mich.) instructor her job; Virginia professor keeps his job but plans a leave amid criticism of Facebook post about Black Lives Matter.

To stake its claim in the strategic South China Sea, China is building airstrips, ports, and other facilities on disputed islands and reefs.

The University of North Dakota has decided not to punish the students who posted racially charged photographs of themselves to the social media platform Snapchat

"We don't want this fence," says taxi driver Syvonne Tucker. "We want to have this relationship with Russia in the same way we've been having for all these years."

The capability of the Internet of Things is nothing short of transformational: Collect vast amounts of data from sensor-laden objects, which then communicate and take action after analyzing their collective data.

Merrimack College wants to work with other area schools in an effort to shut down the Clown Watch Twitter account they say is encouraging disruptive hoaxes ...

The University of Michigan will invest $85 million over the next five years into programs aimed at boosting diversity ...

The University of Illinois's iMBA program offers encouraging news about the viability of graduate degrees built on MOOCs.

"We're moving from a mobile first to an AI-first world."

Humans can only live so long and we're reaching the natural biological limit, researchers say in a report published in Nature.