A planet twice the size of Earth orbiting a nearby star, just 40 light years away, appears to have a surface covered in graphite and diamond. The planet dubbed “55 Cancri e” orbits the binary star 55 Cancri, which is ...

The more chocolate that a country’s citizens eat, the more Nobel prize winners they produce, says an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Columbia University’s Professor Franz Messerli wrote that flavonoids, antioxidants found in cocoa, green tea, ...

The screeching of a knife on a glass bottle has been found to be the worst sound to the human ear by scientists at Newcastle University in the UK. Researchers found that people ranked the sound of a fork on ...

Eating tomatoes may help to reduce to risk of stroke, according to researchers in Finland. The key factor appears to be the antioxidant lycopene that tomatoes are high in. The study, involving more than 1000 middle-aged men, found that those ...

A substance used in medical procedures and cosmetically to erase wrinkles, could also treat bladder related problems of women, a new study has found. Botox injections work in the same way as daily pills do to treat urinary incontinence. It ...

Students attending the University of Chicago are no longer required to swim for their degrees, ending a 60-year tradition that upset a number of undergraduates. They will no longer have to pass a swim test or take a swimming course ...

Scientists at two British universities are working on a project to create a simulated bee brain to implant into robots, in the hope that the machines will mimic the actions of a real bee. The project is being led by ...

A group of medical students from the University of Science, Malaysia has allegedly been brainwashed into abandoning their studies by a Buddhist monk. Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia lay adviser Chong Hung Wang said the student Buddhist association from the ...

Race Discrimination Commissioner Helen Szoke has released principles to promote and protect the human rights of international students at the Australian International Education Conference, calling on organisations working with overseas students to ensure basic human rights are protected. “These principles ...

The UK needs to educate at least an extra 10,000 science graduates a year just to maintain its current industrial position, a major new report has concluded. The Royal Academy of Engineering report, Jobs and Growth: the Importance of Engineering ...