The Hungarian government is planning to remove gender study courses from the curriculum of universities from 2019. "Nobody wants to hire gender graduates, so you do not need to train them," deputy prime minister Zsolt Semyen was qouted saying by the news portal on Monday. Universities were offered 24 hours to comment on the draft law, which was criticised by academics as a "dangerous precedent" for state interference.

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A team of researchers from Duke and Rockefeller Universities has found that individual neurons can encode information about multiple stimuli simultaneously, much the same way electronics like cell phones sort signals by frequency. The findings appear in the journal Nature Communications. “The question we asked is, how do neurons preserve information about two different stimuli [...]

Believed to be part of last month's attacks against global education institutions, the hackers breached 52 accounts across four Singapore universities including NTU and NUS to gain access to research articles.

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Further evidence has been found by Universities of Leicester and Bristol researchers to suggest statins could "significantly reduce" the occurrence of blood clotting in certain parts of the body.