California's community college students could soon stay put -- and pay a lot less -- to earn what they thought they would have to go elsewhere to get: a four-year bachelor's degree.

New statistics published by Pamoja Education, the only provider of online subject courses for students studying the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme ...

Liberal arts college, 161, seeks scalable, highly customizable online education solution.

A hobby archaeologist with a metal detector has discovered a trove of gold and silver in a German forest dating back to late Roman times ...

Google has heard all the concerns about Glass, its digital headset expected to hit the market by the end of the year.

A lie detector for social media is being built to try to verify online rumours.

Robocoin said on Tuesday that later this month it will install the first automated teller machines in the United States that let users buy and sell bitcoin, the latest step into the mainstream for the digital currency.

Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot were detained briefly Tuesday in central Sochi, after apparently being considered suspects in a theft at their hotel, and then released.

The US city of Chicago is considering drastic measures to prevent giant fish infesting North America's Great Lakes.

With hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas continuing to proliferate across the U.S., scientists and environmental activists are raising questions about whether millions of gallons of contaminated drilling fluids could be threatening water supplies and human health.