If forced to choose, who should a self-driving car kill in an unavoidable crash?

Government says rules on conduct of civil servants should apply to scholars at central universities.

The small English cathedral city of Salisbury at the center of an international investigation into the Novichok poisonings is once again in the spotlight.

Tokyo Medical University not alone in rigging entrance exams to exclude women

UC Santa Cruz hosted a "Practical Activism" conference consisting of many social justice-themed workshops.

Despite years leading troops and managing equipment on the front lines, soldiers returning to school may have to start from the beginning, alongside teenagers who have never held a similar level of responsibility.

AAUP says St. Edward's U flouted norms surrounding shared governance, due process and academic freedom when it dismissed two "squeaky wheel" professors and didn't renew a third. University says otherwise.

A spring 2019 Harvard Law course description asserts that Sen. Mitch McConnell, President Donald Trump, and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh present "challenges for democracy under law, for human rights, and for fact-based government."

Frances Arnold says she feels ‘deeply distressed’ by public mistrust of science

In a warming world, the dangers from natural disasters are changing. In a recent commentary, we identified a number of costly and deadly catastrophes that point to an increase in the risk of "cascading" events — ones that intensify the impacts of natural hazards and turn them into disasters.