It is one of the most astonishing fossil discoveries of recent years - a graveyard of whales found beside the Pan-American Highway in Chile.

A waning number of high school graduates from the Midwest is sparking a college hunt for freshman applicants, with the decline being felt as far away as Harvard and Emory universities.

The U.S. Education Department needs to do more to ensure the billions of dollars it offers in financial aid aren’t wasted on students who fraudulently enroll in distance education programs...

Some faculty members in the philosophy department at the University of Colorado say they’re concerned that three outside consultants tasked with studying the climate of the department were given access to confidential files regarding sexual harassment and discrimination.

Scientists are trying to understand if the unusual weather in the Northern Hemisphere this winter ...

Precision agriculture is one of the unexpected bright spots in a new International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) report ...

Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, abruptly stopped trading on Tuesday and its chief executive said the business was at "a turning point" but gave no details.

Check your Facebook mail lately? Didn't think so. Apparently not many others did, either.

Emerging markets generate a desire for large companies to integrate new technologies to scope out new business models ...

Survival expert Tom Brown Jr’s advanced survival training course begins with students being dropped off in the wilds of the state of Montana — in the dead of winter.