A nine-month countdown to the introduction of compulsory age checks on online pornography seen from the UK has begun.

Researchers have expressed concern about the UK government’s decision to start negotiating the country’s exit from the European Union while the department in charge of talks remains without a chief scientific adviser.

University of Illinois-Chicago ad for language program director draws outcry.

Rapid urbanization, a growing appetite for middle class consumer goods and the not-so-enviable distinction of being the world's biggest carbon polluter.

One of the state-owned universities is at risk of losing its accreditation.

New York's Empire State Building will be lit up in yellow to mark a day that organisers hope will put a smile on millions of faces.

More than a quarter of humanities researchers in Norway have never published, according to the first evaluation of the discipline in the country for 30 years.

Six full-time professors -- including leaders of efforts to question administration -- lose jobs.

The world faces a looming challenge of handling our waste, an increasing percentage of which is made of plastic, which simply does not go away.