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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 ...

After 10 years of research, securing a patent for their portable radiation detector is a great triumph for three Wollongong researchers. In 2002, Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld and Dr Michael Lerch, both from the University of Wollongong's Centre for Medical Radiation ...

Is the Monash-Warwick alliance a new model for internationalisation? You have to hand it to the futurists. The 15-hour working week may not have come to pass, and I’m still waiting for my personal jet-pack, but the globalisation of information? ...

A new guide developed to help Australians consider more elderly friendly community design has been released by Queensland University of Technology. Aimed at helping older people remain engaged and mobile within their communities, the Community Liveability Guide was developed to ...

Many more disadvantaged students in Queensland are getting a chance at higher education thanks to restrictions being removed It is true that the uncapping of student places has generated more choice in course options, including a growth in areas with ...

When I referred to the trash or recycle bin on our desktops in a Strictly Speaking last month (18/9), I didn't know that this is what's known as a skeuomorph (from the Greek skeuos "vessel, implement" + morphe "form"). The ...

Universities fear any funding freeze will cost up to 1700 jobs and send valuable projects overseas Recent reports suggesting the federal government may be about to freeze grants on research are a cause for grave concern, says Professor Jill Trewhella ...