Across the country, spring flowers and greenery have dressed urban and rural areas in a multitude of colors.

From New York to Shanghai, cities across the globe are swelling, compounding social and environmental sustainability challenges.

Online master's program in computer science -- a much-watched attempt to apply the MOOC model to for-credit programs -- may not be the big revenue generator the institute projected it would be, but administrators deem it a success and plan to expand it.

Hao Da Xue – literally “good university” in Chinese – is no ordinary online education provider.

Virginia Tech announced Monday its five “destination areas” with a goal of changing the way students experience college.

The race to find a solution to a rapidly warming world is one of the most pressing challenges facing our planet.

Scammers have been worming their way into giant social media networks to trick people into giving over their personal and financial information.

The ʻohiʻa is Hawaii’s iconic tree, a keystone species that maintains healthy watersheds and provides habitat for numerous endangered birds.

Two national applications will offer applicants the chance to move past the traditional gender binary in classifying themselves.

Although the term made it into dictionaries only in 2014, crowdfunding is big business. In 2013, more than $5 billion (£3.5 billion) was raised worldwide, with millions of people pitching in to fund everything from video games to drones.