With our leaders repeatedly failing to take action on climate, divestment from fossil-fuel companies is one of the few effective strategies remaining.

A simple plaque marks the forsaken spot where the Red Baron was buried in central Berlin but hardly anyone stops to remember the flying ace shot down in 1918.

More cases of medicines being administered illegally to preschoolers in China are emerging, as the crisis of confidence in kindergarten managers expands.

In the face of mounting financial challenges, some small colleges are hoping that -- together -- they can be as innovative in the online education space as the big guys.

You're growing tired. Your eyelids are getting heavy. You're feeling very sleepy...

Virtual reality, the emerging 3D technology many expect to be the next quantum leap in the video gaming world, just got a little more real.

The England football team are turning to a psychologist to stop them crashing out of tournaments at the penalty shoot-out stage. Could it work?

Defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty in Moscow on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia again but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of Ukraine.

Planting cover crops in rotation between cash crops -- widely agreed to be ecologically beneficial -- is even more valuable than previously thought ...

Despite growing interest in the higher ed community about the potential of credit being offered for MOOCs, the number of institutions that have rolled out such programs is small.