The release of Facebook's content moderation guidelines has drawn attention to the difficult work of those whose job it is to review the material.

Heavy monsoon rains in South Asia and Hurricanes Harvey and Irma were just a few of the natural disasters that crippled cities around the world last year.

Special commission wants to end one-and-done but largely punts on key issues such as athlete pay and time demands that might impede academic performance.

The hundreds of college trustees and presidents in the audience here Sunday might have been forgiven if they flinched a bit when Jaime Casap started speaking about his background as Google's primary advocate for "trying to bring technology into the education space."

College access and affordability: It's a common topic in higher education — because college is the one place that can really be a catapult when it comes to moving up the economic ladder.

Randa Jarrar's case at Cal State Fresno has attracted national attention, much of it arguably undue. Will she be punished? It's hard to say, given academe's unpredictable track record on discipline for faculty social media snafus.

Scientists are unraveling the reasons why some parts of the world are experiencing sea level increases far beyond the global average

Facebook clarified exactly what you're not allowed to post on the platform, and the list is super-long and specific.

Record levels of microplastics have been found trapped inside sea ice floating in the Arctic.

Economics is a discipline with a communication problem: its practitioners have struggled to gain traction in debates over the rise of populism globally and, in the UK, were the target of Brexit campaigners who claimed that the people in the country had “had enough of experts”.