Math institute gets largest NSF grant ever

The U.S. Homeland Security Department expects applications for high-skilled immigration visas to outpace the available supply in a matter of days, one of the fastest runs on the much-sought-after work permits in years and ...

Evidence of a shift in U.S. demographics and importance of minorities took center stage during the Presidential election, but how do those growing toward majority acquire representation in our educational and technological ...

Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college.

(AP)—Google is announcing $23 million in grants to spur innovation among charities and increase education for girls and minority students in science and technology.

(Phys.org)—When professor and astrophysicist Priya Natarajan read the recent Yale study on gender bias in academic research among scientists, she was surprised­—but not completely. ...

Children of immigrants are outperforming children whose family trees have deeper roots in the United States, learning more in school and then making smoother transitions into adulthood, according to sociologists at The Johns ...

An academic paper on the archaeology of the Search for Richard III reveals for the first time specific details of the grave dug for King Richard III and discovered under a car park in Leicester.

Commitment to the job by correctional staff members cannot be bought but must be earned by an organization, a Wayne State University researcher believes.

Today we constantly switch from one text to another: news, blogs, email, workplace documents and more. But a new book by an MIT professor reveals that this is not a new practice: In the 14th century, for ...

IBM's new survey of marketing professionals finds that chief marketing officers (CMOs) are differentiating their brands by crunching big data in real-time and automating personalized marketing campaigns. The price tag for ...

Maternal milk is fundamental to the health of newborns, but how has this crucial feature of early childhood development evolved in primates?

The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.