Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why adults ages 25 to 44 are making the move to rural areas — and what's it like to embrace a slower pace of life. (Getty Creative ...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a road map for increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and math education opportunities and ...

Homes on a hill in Sylva, North Carolina. (Photo by Elizabeth Albert / Flickr) When Karen Sicner and her husband John made the decision to relocate from metro Atlanta to build a new home on a two-acre ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

O n the surface, Louisiana State University at Alexandria might seem like an institution in trouble. It’s a public regional campus in a rural swath of the state, located in a city of under 50,000 that ...

Rural Americans have long experienced poorer health outcomes compared to their urban counterparts. New evidence shows that the divide is widening, with rural adults aged 25 to 54 significantly more ...

A 60-year-old man living in rural America today is expected to live on average two fewer years than his urban counterpart. (Photo by John Sekutowski / Unsplash) This story was originally published by ...

Discussion of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in rural America requires an understanding of how rural America is defined in federal, state, local, and societal terms ...

What drives economic growth in rural areas — jobs attracting people, or people attracting jobs? According to Amanda Weinstein of the Center on Rural Innovation, the answer may lie in an unexpected ...

When Karen Sicner and her husband John made the decision to relocate from metro Atlanta to build a new home on a two-acre ...

The University of Wisconsin’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, in partnership with the Wisconsin Rural Partnerships Institute, hosted the first Wisconsin Rural Scholars Program this past ...

People living in rural counties have a greater risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), requiring hospitalization, and dying from COPD than those in urban areas. Higher smoking ...