EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 5 (UPI) -- Happiness is partly determined by personality traits, but both personality and happiness are largely hereditary, a Scottish and Australian study finds.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- American author Cormac McCarthy has garnered the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in Scotland to go along with his Pulitzer Prize.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 18 (UPI) -- Hormone therapy can extend life in ovarian cancer patients, giving women an alternative to chemotherapy, a University of Edinburgh study in Scotland says.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 7 (UPI) -- The University of Edinburgh in Scotland has withdrawn the honorary degree it gave Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in 1984. At least two U.S. universities, the University of Massachusetts and Michigan State, are contemplating the same step, The Times of L

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 7 (UPI) -- Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe will soon be stripped of an honorary degree from a British university.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Scottish, U.S. and Australian universities have teamed in an online global collaboration to address the shortage of forensic medicine experts.

EDINBURGH, England, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Milan reportedly made the world's first pure nerve stem cells from human embryonic stem cells.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 21 (UPI) -- The University of Edinburgh has begun a study to determine how to help elderly people maintain physical independence and best recover after surgery.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 15 (UPI) -- A high level of intelligence does not correlate with happiness in childhood or old age, Scottish researchers found.