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Poverty is not a barrier to success at school, a respected international organisation said yesterday. Factors such as poorly educated parents and run-down neighbourhoods condemn underprivileged families to a cycle of ‘social disadvantage’, according to some education experts. But the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development dismissed the assumption as a ‘myth’. Research shows children

A team of scientists has launched an international search to find ‘superhumans’. The researchers hope to track down people with rare phenotypes – for example, people who are somehow protected from disease or whose skin stretches a great deal or heals very quickly. They hope studying these people could eventually help them to find treatments,

  A 12-year-old girl has left doctors speechless after crying stones instead of tears. Saadiya Saleh, who lives in a village in Yemen, produces the small, hard stones beneath her eyelids. They are then naturally pushed to the front of her eyes, before falling down her cheeks. A video of the bizarre phenomenon was posted

  An eighth grade English teacher in South Florida has been suspended for using lyrics to a Lil Wayne song in a homework assignment she gave to her students. According to WPTV, the teacher, who works at The Charter Schools of Boynton Beach, had “an unblemished record” prior to being suspended for three days for

  Our teenage years are among the most awkward and self-conscious of our lives, and now scientists may have discovered why.  Researchers from Harvard used MRI scans to establish that feelings of embarrassment, awkwardness, and self-awareness are linked to a specific brain response that develops, and peaks, during adolescence. This region directly connects to the

  NYSC batch A Corp members are living in fear over the threat made by secondary school students to kill Corpers serving in Kogi state. One of the  serving corper in Victory Model College, Efodo – Okpo, Olamaboro L.G.A of Kogi State reports: It’s no good news to hear that NYSC Corp Members are treated