A surgical knife that can detect when it is cutting through cancerous tissue is being tested in hospitals, raising hopes that the spread of cancer left behind after surgery could soon be curbed more successfully.

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A lower second is not the disaster it seems, says David Ellis. You still have plenty of options

Fears that death toll of 150 could soar, with up to 14,000 unaccounted for

The Toffees are looking for a successor to David Moyes

We aren’t tragic spinsters, desperately freezing our eggs and gazing wistfully out of the windows of our cold, stark bedsits, humming ‘someday my Prince will come’

They say that university years are the best of your life, but which year was the best of your university life?

Emily Bauer left severely disabled after smoking a product she purchased from a petrol station

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As if to prove Parkinson’s light-hearted law, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”, exams take over and over and over until everything, including money, gets forgotten.

The library is a vital place for students. It is the sanctuary where our most innovative thinking is produced and our most significant work completed, and it is a haven from the distractions of the outside world. Well that may all be exaggerating slightly, but it is a place you go to when an important deadline is looming and you really need to concentrate.

Candy canes a-plenty and silver lanes aglow; Christmas is undergoing a transformation, but it's not too late to stop it

It is very hard to win both Giro and Tour so Brit’s chances in France depend on how he copes in Italy

There are approximately 3.26 million people currently with their own health insurance cover in the UK but with free NHS cover available to all, there are plenty of factors to consider before you decide to purchase.