A misplaced decimal point put two students at Northumbria University in the ICU. On Wednesday, a judge fined the UK school about $500,000 for its mishandling of a science experiment in which the students received caffeine dosages 100 times stronger than intended, reports the Telegraph. The two sports science students were supposed to get 0.3 grams of caffeine—equal to three cups of coffee—to measure the drug's effect on exercise. It’s a dose prosecutor Adam Farrer told Newcastle Crown Court “could easily have been fatal,” the BBC reports. This article originally appeared on Newser: Students Given Potentially Lethal Doses of Caffeine

Source: Fox News January 27, 2017 14:37 UTC