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When Students Acquire Spatial Skills, Their Verbal Abilities Get a Boost
Conventional testing can underestimate a student’s learning ability. Sociocultural barriers, test anxiety and differences in rates of brain development can…
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Reaching the Root of Disparities in Cancer Care [Sponsored]
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When Students Learn Spatial Skills, Their Verbal Abilities Get a Boost
Conventional testing can underestimate a student’s learning ability. Sociocultural barriers, test anxiety and differences in rates of brain development can…
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Webb telescope reveals unpredicted bounty of bright galaxies in early universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has only been watching the sky for a few weeks, and it has already delivered…
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Nearby star’s midlife crisis illuminates the future of our own Sun
Soon after European astronomers developed the first telescopes at the start of the 17th century, they observed dark spots speckling…
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Langya virus: How serious is the new pathogen discovered in China?
Thirty five people are known to have been infected by Langya henipavirus in the Shandong and Henan provinces of China…
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U.S. Department of Energy research gets a surprise boost in inflation-reduction bill
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) science programs are poised to get a windfall of $1.5 billion over 5 years…
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Almost No One in Kentucky Has Flood Insurance, Hindering Recovery
CLIMATEWIRE | Kentucky residents who are struggling to rebuild after devastating flooding face huge financial obstacles because almost nobody in the…
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How effective is the monkeypox vaccine? Scientists scramble for clues as trials ramp up
When monkeypox suddenly started spreading globally in May, the world was fortunate in one respect: a vaccine was available. MVA,…
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Rule change for reporting sexual misconduct could hurt grad students and others
When Allison Cipriano read the U.S. Department of Education’s recently proposed amendments to Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting sexual…
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Sponges can ‘sneeze’ and other sea creatures eat their mucus
Despite having no nerves or muscles, sea sponges slowly contract to squeeze sand and debris out of the openings they…
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Researchers decipher mysterious ancient recipe for bronze
In 1976, archeologists excavated more than 1.5 tons of bronze from the 3000-year-old tomb of Fu Hao, a Chinese general…
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Cultural Bias Distorts the Search for Alien Life
Since time immemorial, humans have looked to the heavens above to make sense of life below, right here on Earth.…
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Sponges sneeze too, as this video shows
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Drones Bearing Parcels Deliver Big Carbon Savings
Drones that fly packages straight to people’s doors could be an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional modes of transportation. A…
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Roasting green chillies in the sun could pave way for solar cooking
An experiment using solar concentrators, which focus sunlight at a point, to roast green chillies suggests it may be possible…
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For Some Dolphins, the Key to Mating is Rolling With a Tight, Noisy Crew
Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. It’s great to have friends. Especially if you’re an…
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Solomon: Poem: ‘My Father Flies into a Hurricane’
Edited by Dava Sobel They fly from the Caribbean sun into the storm’s spiraling arms; their turbo prop jolts and…
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How Scientists Revived Dead Pigs’ Organs, and What the Feat Means for Transplants
Using a special machine that pumps blood and other fluids around the body, researchers restored cells and organs in pigs…
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Giant yellow crustacean in an aquarium turns out to be new species
By Corryn Wetzel Bathynomus yucatanensis is one of nearly two dozen known giant isopod species found in the deep sea.…
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Bats show fewer signs of ageing while they are hibernating
Similarly to marmots, a brown bat species (Eptesicus fuscus) expresses reduced ageing biomarkers while hibernating Life 10 August 2022 By…
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Secrets of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze finally deciphered
Metal-making practices described in a 2300-year-old text called the Kaogong Ji are more sophisticated than anyone realised Humans 10 August…
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In Memoriam: James Lovelock (1919-2022)
Jim Lovelock (never ‘James’) is remembered as the father of the Gaia hypoth-esis: the idea that Earth is a self-regulating…
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Tiny electromagnetic robot runs fast and re-forms after being squished
A soft rubber robot smaller than a postage stamp and controlled by electromagnetic forces can swim, jump and rotate –…
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Last Month Was among the Hottest Julys Ever Recorded
CLIMATEWIRE | Last month ranked among the planet’s top three hottest Julys on record. The extreme temperatures came as deadly…
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Tiny electromagnetic robot runs fast and reforms after being squished
A soft rubber robot smaller than a postage stamp and controlled by electromagnetic forces can swim, jump and rotate –…
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Star marine ecologist committed misconduct, university says
A major controversy in marine biology took a new twist last week when the University of Delaware (UD) found one…
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Patients and Doctors Navigate Conflicting Abortion and Emergency Care Laws
Each week, Dr. Kim Puterbaugh sees several pregnant patients at a Cleveland hospital who are experiencing complications involving bleeding or…
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Restrictions on Psilocybin ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Are Easing as Research Ramps Up
Magic mushrooms are undergoing a transformation from illicit recreational drug to promising mental health treatment. Numerous studies have reported positive…
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How to spot the 2022 Perseid meteor shower that will peak on Saturday
The Perseid meteor shower will peak this year in the early hours of 13 August. A full moon will make…
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The Biden Administration Must Designate Civilian Satellites Critical Infrastructure
For five days in 2021, gas on the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. stopped flowing. People began to panic-buy at…
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‘Dry lightning’ sparked the most destructive wildfires in California
Nearly half of the lightning strikes in northern California over the past three decades occurred on days with little to…
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6 Questions About Monkeypox Vaccines
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Monkeypox isn’t going…
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Spiders Seem to Have REM-like Sleep and May Even Dream
Barred from her lab by pandemic restrictions, behavioral ecologist Daniela Rößler caught local jumping spiders and kept them in clear…
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These are the UK supermarket items with the worst environmental impact
Researchers trained an algorithm to estimate the environmental impact of 57,000 products sold in the UK and Ireland to help…
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Why COVID Makes So Many of Us Feel Guilty
Why does it feel so hard these days to make decisions? And, in the wake of the COVID pandemic, why…
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Artificial neuron swaps dopamine with rat brain cells like a real one
An electrical device that can send and receive chemical signals from neurons could be used in brain-machine interfaces Technology 8…
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What Is Paxlovid Rebound, and How Common Is It?
When President Joe Biden was diagnosed with COVID, he started taking an oral treatment of the antiviral Paxlovid almost immediately.…
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Soap molecule could help make alternative LED tech commercially viable
LEDs made from perovskite, a titanium and calcium crystal, are a potential alternative to silicon-based ones, but until now haven’t…
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A bigger home on the range for Montana bison
For the first time in more than 15 years, Montana bison will roam new grazing grounds on public land. After…
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Nearly $53 Billion in Federal Funding Could Revive the U.S. Computer Chip Industry
This week, President Joe Biden will sign the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law. The legislation includes nearly…
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Immunity for common cold coronaviruses may ward off severe covid-19
In a laboratory experiment, a strong T-cell response against the coronaviruses that cause common cold-like symptoms was linked to greater…
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Senate Passes Historic Climate Bill—Here’s What Comes Next
CLIMATEWIRE | Three decades after ratifying the world’s first climate treaty, the Senate passed a sweeping budget bill Sunday that…
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Climate change impacts are making most infectious diseases worse
Researchers have found more than 1000 ways 10 climate hazards may aggravate transmissible diseases, from flooding to heatwaves Environment 8…
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What does the Inflation Reduction Act mean for US carbon emissions?
The US senate just passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes the largest climate spending package in US…
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Russian shelling at Ukrainian nuclear plant risks ‘another Chernobyl’
A scientist at the Chernobyl nuclear plant says that Russian troops occupying the Zaporizhzya nuclear plant are risking its safety,…
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Exceeding weekly alcohol recommendations linked to short chromosomes
Regions of repetitive DNA sequence called telomeres cap our chromosomes, with shorter telomeres being linked to Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and…
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Scientists Revive Human Retinas after Death
Few biological facts seem as irrevocable as brain death. It has long been assumed that when we die, our neurons…
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Diabetes Screening Standards in the U.S. Miss the Disease in Many People of Color
Rahul Aggarwal was in medical school when he got the surprising news that his mother—a fit woman in her 40s—had…
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How the Ocean Sustains Complex Life
Detailed data about a host of physical and chemical forces are shaping a new view of the sea By Mark…
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