Almost two thirds of students are influenced by the north-south divide and "regional rivalries" when it comes to choosing a university. According to new research by The Student Room, an online community for students, universities in the south of England are the most popular among students. Almost 62 per cent of students who expressed their preference said they would ratherRead more

An International Dialogue Forum on “The Impact of and Economic Development Policies in Preventing Terrorism” will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.  The event sponsored by the Social Security Research Center (SSRC) of University Malaya will be held in cooperation with the Riyadh-based Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG).  The scientific supervision of the forum will be conducted byRead more

A "unique" 3,800-year-old figurine showing a seated person, apparently deep in thought, was unveiled in Israel on Wednesday. Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that the figure, wearing a hat and with its chin resting on its hand, was discovered recently in excavations at Yehud, east of Tel Aviv. It caps an 18-centimetre (seven-inch) jug, and was found in a graveRead more

Ants found in the Pacific islands of Fiji behave as miniature farmers, carefully sowing and fertilising the seeds of at least six types of plant, a study said Monday. Ants have previously been observed farming fungi for food, but this is the first study to show the insects cultivating plants, said researchers from the University of Munich who published theirRead more

Ancient Japan may have been far more cosmopolitan than previously thought, archaeologists said Wednesday, pointing to fresh evidence of a Persian official working in the former capital Nara more than 1,000 years ago. Present-day Iran and Japan were known to have had direct trade links since at least the 7th century, but new testing on a piece of wood --Read more

Scientists have identified a gene that helps us feel and keep tabs on our body’s position in space. Two people, aged nine and 19 years old, with mutations on a gene called PIEZO2 showed researchers how their senses of touch and body awareness, or proprioception, differed from those of other people.  When blindfolds prevented them from seeing their surroundings, theRead more

A pair of experimental vaccines being developed by the US National Institutes of Health protected monkeys against Zika virus infection after two doses, researchers said Thursday. One of the vaccines, known as VRC5288, has already begun early trials in humans to test safety and efficacy, according to a study published in Science. A phase 2 trial in Zika-endemic countries couldRead more

Stem cell-based transplantation approaches hold great potential for treating a wide range of eye diseases, but progress has been limited by concerns about cost, safety, and effectiveness. In two related studies published RECENTLY in Stem Cell Reports, the journal of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), scientists in Japan overcame a part of these concerns by demonstrating theRead more

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou's team has made new progress in their research into antimalarial drug artemisinin, a team member said on Monday. At the ongoing third Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Science Meeting in south China's Guangdong Province, Liao Fulong, the researcher with Tu's team, said they found that there are other anti-malaria components in sweet wormwood besides artemisinin. The findingRead more

Researchers with a collective term for the scientific search for intelligent extraterrestrial life have pointed their telescopes in the direction of a star system 94 light-years away for possible intelligent inhabitants. The star system, HD 164595, is a few billion years older than the Sun but centered on a star of comparable size and brightness. It is the purported sourceRead more