Education
Penn State University fined $60M over assistant coach Jerry Sandusky scandal
US college sport authorities have fined Penn State University $60 million in the wake of child sex abuse perpetrated by assistant football coach Jerry...
Owning a pet has a positive impact on children’s homework and their level of fitness
A new report by UK’s Pets at Home on the beneficial effects of pet ownership suggests that owning a pet may in fact help...
Roger Roberts dies after Aberystwyth University graduation at 82
Roger Roberts, one of the oldest people to graduate from Aberystwyth University in UK, has died just three days after picking up his degree. Roger...
Dutch Olympic athletes face fines for delaying degrees
Dutch Olympic athletes are facing government fines because they delayed finishing their degrees. About 50 of the athletes competing at the London 2012 Games are...
Angela Zhang’s Research Paper For Cancer Patients
Angela Zhang's Research Paper Title is: Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells Angela Zhang received...
Shouryya Ray, 16-year-old genius, didn’t actually solve Newton’s puzzle
Last month it was widely reported that 16-year-old Shouryya Ray had solved a problem first posed by Isaac Newton over 350 years ago that...
Auburn shooting: multiple victims have been claimed at University Heights apartment complex
"Multiple victims" has been claimed after a shooting at an apartment complex in Auburn in the US state of Alabama, police say. The attack occurred...
Sho Yano becomes the youngest student ever awarded an M.D. at 21
Sho Yano, a 21-year-old man from Chicago, who began college at age nine and medical school three years later, is about to become the...
Tudor era is a historical myth, claims Oxford historian Cliff Davies
"Tudor era" in history is a misleading invention, claims Cliff Davies, an Oxford University historian. Cliff Davies says his research shows the term "Tudor" was...
Barack Obama may have got worse high school grades than George W. Bush, as SAT scores reveal
It appears Barack Obama may have got worse high school grades than George W. Bush after new evidence showed the current president was among...
Staples reading speed test shows you how fast you can read in comparison to others
Stationery supplier Staples has created an application that aims to put your reading speed to the test. Staples has developed a timed test which gives...
Prom dates plunge into lake while taking photos after pier collapsed
Prom night was almost a complete washout for a group of students from the Kettle Moraine High School, Wisconsin, when they posed for a...
Beyoncé and Jay-Z support Erica Reid’s launch of her parenting book The Thriving Child
Last night Beyoncé and Jay-Z attended the launch party for friend Erica Reid's parenting book The Thriving Child. Beyoncé, 30, showed off her stunning post-baby...
Emmelyn Roettger becomes Mensa’s youngest US member after being dignosed with autism
Three-year-old Emmelyn Roettger of Washington D.C. loves writing, spelling and counting and is fascinated by science and space. Despite her tender age Emmelyn Roettger, known...
Thomas Middleton is co-author of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare’s All's Well That Ends Well has a co-author, according to a research from Oxford University academics. Thomas Middleton has been revealed as the...
Drinking water may improve students grades
Students who drink water inside the examination hall may improve their grades, a British study of 447 people found. Controlling for ability from previous coursework...
Six in ten articles on Wikipedia contain inaccuracies
A new research has found that up to six in ten articles on Wikipedia contain inaccuracies. The number of factual errors shows just how unreliable...
Jeremy Wuitschick, 13, took the wheel of school bus when driver passed out and save his colleagues
Jeremy Wuitschick, a brave seventh grader from Milton, Washington, said he was “acting on instinct” when he jumped up to stop his school bus...
One Goh named as suspect in Oikos University shooting
One Goh has been named by police as the man believed to have shot dead seven people and injured three others at Oikos University...
Toulouse Ozar Hatorah gunman had a camera around his neck
The man who killed four people at Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse had a camera around his neck and may have filmed the...
Ozar Hatorah shooting: huge manhunt after four people have been killed at the Jewish school in Toulouse
France launched one of the biggest manhunts in recent country’s history after three children and one adult were shot dead at Ozar Hatorah Jewish...
Ozar Hatorah shooting UPDATE: a teacher and 3 children have been killed at Toulouse Jewish school
A teacher and three children have been killed after a gunman opened fire at Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse. A...
Shooting at French Jewish school Ozar Hatorah in Toulouse
Two children and one adult have been killed in a shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, south-west France. Eyewitnesses said a man opened fire...
TJ Lane shot students at random in the cafeteria of Chardon High School, revealed recordings of 911 calls
Ohio authorities have released recordings of the chilling 911 calls after TJ Lane began shooting victims randomly in the cafeteria of Chardon High School...
Ohio high school shooting: TJ Lane in court as a third students died in the aftermath
A third student has died in the aftermath of the Chardon High School shooting in Ohio, US. Demetrius Hewlin died hours after Russell King Jr.,...
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