Scientists from Cambridge University have found a way to get paralysed dogs to walk again, offering new hope for research into repairing damaged human spinal cords. Movement was restored to the dogs' hind legs by injecting cells, taken from the ...

Australian universities currently have more links with universities in China than with any other part of the world, the federal Tertiary Education Minister and a leading university lobby have announced.   Attending the Australia-China University Leaders Forum in Canberra, Senator ...

Digital learning will be high on the agenda for Mary McAleese and her colleagues as they examine Europe’s higher education institutions. After serving 14 years as president of the Republic of Ireland, one could be excused for wishing to take ...

Receding hairlines, earlobe creases, puffy eyes – all these signs of physical aging are also associated with risk of heart attack, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen found that the presence of visible signs of ...

A hamburger is the latest object to be launched into outer space by a group of bored Harvard students. The five Harvard students sent the burger more than 30 kilometres into the atmosphere after attaching it to a 600-gram weather ...

A study by the University of Warwick has found the higher salary that graduates traditionally earn by having a university degree has significantly fallen during the past decade. The findings revealed graduate transitions into the labour market have been affected ...

Fear of maths can be so bad that it can cause some people physical pain. Researchers from the University of Chicago have found that anxiety about the subject can activate regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical ...

Eating fish, particularly oily fish, a couple of times a week may help reduce risk of stroke, but fish oil supplements don’t have the same effect, a UK study has found. University of Cambridge researchers analysed 38 studies involving almost ...

Men can tolerate more pain than women and are less likely to let on that they are suffering, scientists claim. Researchers from Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK found that men tend to act stoically when they are hurt, whereas ...

Smokers take two to three more sick days per year than non-smokers, costing the UK billions of pounds in loss of productivity, according to researchers from the University of Nottingham. The report, published in the journal Addiction, analysed 29 separate ...