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20-27 % of people were infected in countries for which data are available

The annual show by doctoral students in the Controlled Quantum Dynamics group gives them a chance to present their research in an entertaining way.

Cutting edge software developed at Newcastle University is teaching children how to learn

Holidaymakers' photos could help scientists track the movements of giant endangered sharks living in the waters of the Indian Ocean.

New literary prize celebrates fiction at its most novel

Loughborough University announces on 30 January 2013 that ambitious proposals for an expanded Science and Enterprise Park are being developed with local partners.

A Newcastle University lecturer is heading to Ethiopia to help the country meet its urgent housing needs.

Archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin unlock the long-lost past of the Assiut region

The risk of hospitalisation or death from heart disease is 32% lower in vegetarians than people who eat meat and fish, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.

The "Study on the Development of All-Day Schools" (2005-2010), which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), shows that extra-curricular activities in all-day schools provide special potential for the individual support of students.

One of the two women, buried in the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec in the 12th century, was probably dark blonde with brown eyes, suggest the anthropologists and geneticians from the Jagiellonian University, Institute of Forensic Expertise in Kraków and the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam. The researchers are capable of determining the eye and hair colour of other historical figures.

Empowering teachers with the skills to use music in the classroom can boost not only music skills in children, but also helps to improve aspects of literacy, particularly reading.

Ninety-five per cent in employment within three months of graduation

The first ever Oxford Tolkien Spring School will be held in March 2013.

The EU Lifelong Learning Programme was launched on 1 January 2007. With a budget of almost 7 billion euros for 2007 to 2013. LLP is the biggest European education programme to date and funds European exchanges of learners and teachers in all age groups, as well as cooperation among European educational institutions.

Twenty two million Poles use the Internet, with seven people in ten doing it regularly, Men shop online more often than women, shows an e-commerce market survey.

Researchers at M. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS experimentally confirmed the determinants of the short-term memory capacity, crucial for the functioning of our consciousness. The Nencki Institute announced that a person can consciously simultaneously operate five to nine portions of information. During processing portions, these portions remain in short-term memory.

The supercomputer of the AGH University of Science and Technology Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET was 88th in the prestigious ranking of TOP 500 world’s most powerful computers.

More than 70 percent Polish students are self-dependent, according to the 2008-2011 EUROSTUDENT report on the Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe, based on data from 25 European countries.

78 percent students would like to start their own companies. Factors stopping them from fulfilliung their dreams include: shortage of capital, high risk, everyday bureaucracy and lack of experience, according to the Foundation Initium study, conducted under a project supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.