Bard College announced Sunday that it will offer a new path to admission: an online essay examination in which applicants will have to submit four 2,500-word research papers.

Living below the sea is possible, at least for a short time. So what is stopping us creating colonies to ease over-population, or guard against disasters?

During a secret visit to Melbourne ten years ago, the mysterious and now world famous British street artist, Banksy, left a trail of works across a city he onin 2003ce described as a “hub of stencilling” and a “hothouse of creativity”.

It's easy to get caught up in the buzz around 3D printing.

A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems ...

Online retailers are trying to cajole consumers into revealing their vital statistics with new sizing technology tailored to turn back a tide of returned garments that is hurting profits.

SF Express, one of China's largest couriers, has confirmed it is testing drone technology to deliver parcels.

The US government has less than 48 hours to avert a shutdown of government services amid political divisions over President Obama's healthcare law.

The tiny Inupiat Eskimo community in near-Arctic Alaska -- which I was lucky enough to visit on a reporting trip in 2009 and which is home to some of the sweetest and most colorful people you'll meet -- has been watching climate change happen to it for years now.

A new report released today by the world’s leading climate change scientists states it is "extremely likely" that humans have been the main cause of global warming since the 1950s.