Washington, Apr 23 : If you suspect that the most beautiful girl in your class gets better grades just because of her good looks, well, then you''re absolutely right, suggest researchers.

Researchers from the University of Miami Health Economics Research Group, have said that non-cognitive traits play an important role in the assignment of grades in high school.

The study showed that physical attractiveness, personality, and grooming are good predictors of grades in high school and may indicate future success in college and labour markets.

Washington, April 17 : A University of Colorado at Boulder team, US, has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

Like current methods in the nanoengineering field, one color of light inscribes a pattern on a substrate, according to CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Robert McLeod of the electrical, computer and energy engineering department.

But, the new system developed by McLeod’s team uses a second color to “erase” the edges of the pattern, resulting in much smaller structures.

On the ragging issue, the Himachal Pradesh administration slapped show cause notices on 40 functionaries of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Medical College at Tanda in Kangra on Thursday.

Mr. Rajeev Bindal, State Health Minister, stated, “Show cause notices have been served on principals, wardens and managers since 2001 when the first case of ragging was reported at the medical college, Tanda. We will not spare the guilty.”

Close on the heels of fee-hike announcement by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), the IIM Lucknow and IIM Bangalore too have announced that, from the forthcoming academic session, the fee for their flagship Post Graduate

Programme in Management (PGPM) will be increased Rs.1.5 lakh per annum.

Washington, April 2 : A new study conducted at the University of Granada (Spain) has found that 6 out of every 10 university students, regardless their field of study, present any symptom of anxiety when it comes to deal with mathematics.

Also, the study found that there are significant differences between men and women in this sense, as men suffer less anxiety when it comes to deal with mathematical tasks.

Berlin  - Religion and school are two subjects that don't sit comfortably side by side in Berlin.

In contrast to most of Germany, pupils in the capital do not attend compulsory religion classes. Instead, Berlin's children can opt for extra-curricular lessons in their faith.

Ethics, on the other hand, was introduced as a core school subject in 2006, in the wake of a so-called honour killing within Berlin's Turkish community which raised questions about faith and moral values being instilled in the young.