Facebook's latest and potentially greenest data center went live this week, boasting renewable energy supplies and an impressive energy efficiency rating.

he number of Americans graduating from college has surged in recent years, sending the share with a college degree to a new high, federal data shows.

To hear members of Congress tell it, reauthorizing the Higher Education Act is looming on the near horizon of the legislative agenda -- even though most others here consider it a mirage that’s still years away.

Computers, tablets and smartphones have not yet managed to crowd out pens and pencils, says Faber-Castell, German maker of high-end writing instruments.

The man behind the Rate Your Lecturer website, which encourages British university students to publicly praise or censure their teachers, has defended the project against a glut of criticism from academics.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that human genes cannot be patented.

San Francisco State University votes to divest investment in coal, tar sands

A special commission studying the use of commission-based recruitment of international students has urged the National Association for College Admission Counseling to lift a ban on the practice,

This year, the Chinese Ministries of Commerce and Environmental Protection jointly released guidelines for Chinese companies doing business abroad on how to operate sustainably ...

Humans have a strong affinity with dolphins. The marine mammals are regarded as one of the world’s most intelligent species ...