"academy"

Following criticism of the lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominations, the academy has voted to approve changes aimed at doubling the number of women and people of color by 2020.

For one week back in 2012, Facebook scientists altered what appeared on the News Feed of more than 600,000 users. One group got mostly positive items; the other got mostly negative items.

A study published Monday suggests Americans are less afraid of hurricanes with female names.

American leadership in the 21st century will be defined in part by the nation’s military strength, “but only in part,” President Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with NPR about his foreign policy priorities.

The essay is optional. Scores will return to 1,600. And there will be no penalties if you answer something incorrectly. Those are the big takeaways from the SAT changes announced Wednesday.

China said Wednesday that it plans to increase defense outlays by more than 12 percent, to nearly $132 billion, this year in the face of what a top military official described as increasingly severe security challenges for Beijing.

A creature that lived 375 million years ago and is thought to have been the first fish to have made the transition to land sported large pelvic bones in addition to its leg-like front fins, new research shows, suggesting that it was a more efficient walker than previously thought.

Tuesday’s terrifying incident at an elementary school near Atlanta — in which a gunman with an assault rifle and other weapons entered the building — ended with no one being hurt after a school clerk apparently spent about an hour talking to the young man.