The difficulty is that most university lecturers aren't trained teachers but have generally "picked it up on the job".

The human nose contains roughly 400 olfactory receptors, but no two people have the same sense of smell.

The reign of the kilo as we know it may be about to come to an end.

Great news for students - jeans left unwashed for a year are no dirtier than those that have been worn for a fortnight.

Ethics experts have approved NZ's first clinical trial using adult stem cells to treat people with spinal injuries.

Experts blame a combination of a La Nina weather pattern and global warming for the magnitude of the Queensland flood disaster.

What if a DNA reading machine could be fed through a machine, much like swiping your credit card?

A couple so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the gender of their next child.

Smelling a woman's tears can quell a man's sexual desire, a study has found.

Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year.

Scientists from 38 organisations in ten countries collaborated to publish the complete DNA sequence of the woodland strawberry.