Inadequate sewage systems and the lack of toilets in much of the developing world have created a major public health and environmental crisis. Now various innovators are promoting new kinds of toilets and technologies that use little or no water and recycle the waste.

As the deadline for Oxbridge applications looms, Oxford tutors talk through the type of questions they'll be asking university applicants this autumn – and the answers they hope to hear

One of the Taliban's most feared commanders, Maulana Fazlullah, carefully briefed two killers from his special hit squad on their next target.The gunmen weren't going after

It’s the advice that’s given to Asian-American students by friends, family members, guidance counselors, even teachers, in the college application process.

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case challenging race-conscious admission to public colleges, university officials watched for clues to where the court might go.

The company has pledged to reduce its overall paper use and increase its use of recycled paper.

Primary school students may not fully understand the Confucian works they are reciting, but the works are a big part of China's pilot efforts to promote traditional Chinese cultural education among the country's youth.

Purdue University is hiring more than 100 new engineering professors as part of an effort to move the school to the top of the engineering field.

Gov. Nikki Haley wants South Carolina's colleges and universities to earn the money they are given.

Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz. This one's bigger than planet Earth.Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our