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London - A university in the Beatles' home city of Liverpool said Tuesday it would become the first academic institution in the world to offer a Masters Degree (MA) on the life and legacy of the Fab Four. Liverpool Hope University, which has 7,000 st...

Camille Parmesan didn't mind having her early work denigrated by Rush Limbaugh during his on-air program. "Actually, I was quite pleased with that," she says of the radio show host, who derided her studies on the geographic shifts of a butterfly species because of climate change. "I thought if I got his goat that heavily, then I must be making an impact."That was in 1996, and since then she has become one of the leading conservation biologists monitoring what rapid climate change is doing to the world's plants and animals. Like many of her colleagues, she warns anyone who will listen of the ecological dangers. But unlike her colleagues, she is lately suggesting a way of saving threatened species that is still unthinkable to many biologists: assisting their migration and colonization. [More] Presented By:Kingdom of the Blue Whale ? Sun Mar 8 8PBlue whales are the planet?s largest creatures, yet we hardly ever see them. Their calls travel thous

One of my favorite non-traditional student blogs is written by Zickbee. You've heard me mention her here before. Sunday, she blogged about being parked in the library studying for mid-terms,...

Another plus for breastfeeding - it may actually reduce the risk for multiple sclerosis (MS) relapse, according to a study that will be presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Seattle this coming April-May.The study followed up 32 women with MS and 29 without ...

SHURA Council members yesterday blocked plans for a new government fund to support university students studying in the country and abroad.

Elderly women with upper arm fractures are five times more likely than the general population to experience a broken hip in the 12 months following the arm fracture, according to a study published in the March 2009 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS). Understanding that risk can be a key to preventing those fractures, the study notes.

Parents can help their teenagers to never start smoking. A new study has found that adolescents respond positively to their parents' attitudes towards smoking.

A new study shows that young teens who own alcohol-branded merchandise seem more likely to progress to problem drinking, raising questions about the influence of these items on young people.

(University of Haifa) Gifted youths already know what they want to be when they grow up. They usually choose to study applied sciences, but when they are asked why they made their choices, they are not able to explain. 'Society identifies the gifted child with high intelligence and is often hasty to identify this intelligence with specific subjects, especially exact or prestigious sciences. The maturing children are quick to adopt this identity, renouncing the process of building self-identity.'

A popular smoking cessation drug dramatically reduced the amount a heavy drinker will consume, a new Yale School of Medicine study has found. Heavy-drinking smokers in a laboratory setting were much less likely to drink after taking the drug varenicline compared to those taking a placebo, according to a study published online in the journal Biological Psychiatry.