Cigarette use among white teenagers is substantially higher than among black and Hispanic teenagers, especially at 18 years old, according to Penn State researchers.

Not only will journal editors for the International Studies Association continue to be free to blog, but last year’s debate about the professional value of blogging has spawned an initiative within the organization to explore how online media can benefit scholars in the field.

Yesterday, speaking to nearly 2,000 local leaders at the National League of Cities annual meeting, President Obama announced his TechHire initiative

The University of Tennessee athletics department inappropriately pressured officials in charge of campus discipline and exerted undue influence that placed students and institutional integrity in "peril,"

The Apple Watch doesn't go on sale officially for more than a month, but China is already awash with clones.

The United States is experiencing an incredible domestic energy boom: energy imports are down and natural gas supplies are way up.

Gougou.com, one of China's most notorious pirate content search engines, has been shut down.

Many mammals — and some birds — escape the winter by hibernating for three to nine months.

Two months before the Civil War began, Noble Leslie DeVotie was boarding a steamship when he slipped, fell into the waters of Mobile Bay and drowned.

Wellesley College is joining a growing list of women's colleges that accept transgender students.