In a packed pub in midtown Manhattan, Ryan Flagherty is surrounded on three sides by people clamoring for his attention.

US President Barack Obama has unveiled a proposal to limit carbon emissions on new power plants built in the US.

Key S.C. lawmakers said they want more details before agreeing to the University of South Carolina’s offer Wednesday to freeze tuition and requests for state money for special projects for three years in exchange for more money from the General Assembly.

The U.S. House of Representatives was set to vote last week on a bill that would create the position of "science laureate" ...

Yellow belly legless lizards found in California.

Arizona, long at odds with President Barack Obama's administration over immigration reform, is expanding a ban on giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants to include all those who have been granted relief from deportation, in a move rights advocates criticized as "vindictive."

We thought we knew how planets form, but the discovery of hundreds outside our Solar System changed all that, even what type of world can house life like ours.

With 150 million tweets across 16 days, and 80,000 a minute when Usain Bolt won his 200 meters title, plus 1 billion official page impressions on Facebook, the London 2012 Olympics was crowned as the "first social media Games."

The mainly-UK backed MOOC platform, FutureLearn, was unveiled yesterday at a press conference held at the British Library, which is one of the three British cultural institutions lending its weight to the Open University (OU)-owned and built MOOC platform.

The University of Alabama has faced a barrage of criticism over the past several days, after its student newspaper published an account of black students being denied membership into white sororities because of their race.