The number of shark attacks in New South Wales have been particularly high this year, even though estimated shark numbers are at record lows.

China wants to speed construction of a national network to charge electric cars, to help reach an ambitious goal of 5 million green vehicles on its roads by 2020

Scientists have long blamed a single culprit in the sudden and violent mass extinction that took out the dinosaurs ...

Each time SolarCity sells a megawatt of solar power in the United States, it lights up a school in Central America or Africa by installing solar-based electricity — which amounts to 1,000 schools this year.

The rise of open-access publishing, combined with pressure on academics to get published, has caused a spectacular increase in the number of articles spewed out by “predatory” journals ...

Rapidly rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increased lightning strikes are leading to ever-larger wildfires in the northern forests ...

I have just read the news that Plymouth University has appointed Judith Petts as its new vice-chancellor.

In January, high school students as young as freshmen will have the opportunity to engage with several colleges — including Pomona, Stanford and Caltech ...

Free energy from the air.

James Sallis, a novelist who may be the most famous faculty member at Phoenix College, has for many years taught as an adjunct at the community college.