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A study has found that college students with social anxiety and depression were more driven by social motives to ‘pregame’ or drink before heading out to a social function and experienced more negative consequences as a result of pregaming.

A team of five mechanical engineering seniors from Rice University, in Houston, Texas, has been tasked by NASA to design furniture suitable for use in future habitats on Mars, the Moon, or in space itself.

When the first living visitor from Earth lands on Mars we might well expect it to be a man or a woman, but if students from the University of Southampton Spaceflight Society have their way, it could be one small step for a lettuce.

When a soldier is wounded right at the junction between an extremity and the torso, it can be difficult to treat. A group of students from Johns Hopkins University are working on a solution, in the form of a hardening polyurethane foam that's injected into the wound.

Intel has announced the winners of its 2014 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Intel says it is the world's largest high-school science research competition. The top prize went to 15-year-old Nathan Han for his software that studies the mutations of a gene linked to breast cancer.

JP Aerospace will send students' science projects into the stratosphere - as long as they can fit inside a ping pong ball.

Casio has unveiled its next generation graphing calculator - the PRIZM