Four new studies by researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that when a woman's goal is to be romantically desirable, she distances herself from academic majors and activities related to science, technology, engineering ...
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2011
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(Phys.org) —A joint study by the University of Sydney's Faculty of Education and Social Work and the Australian Council for the Arts has found that engagement in the arts benefits students not just in the classroom, but ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2013
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While some folks may look at university/college dropouts as simply lazy slackers, a Western study boils the bailout down to simple ability.
Economics & Business
Feb 15, 2013
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New research suggests the "growth mindset" strategy favored by some educators to improve student performance hasn't lived up to its promise—resulting in time and effort dedicated to growth mindsets in the classroom without ...
Education
Nov 7, 2022
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America's youngest scientists, increasingly losing research dollars, are leaving the academic biomedical workforce, a brain drain that poses grave risks for the future of science, according to an article published this week ...
Other
Jan 7, 2015
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(Phys.org)—Geneticist Theo Sanderson has written a simple text editor that allows a writer to use only words from a list of the 1000 ("ten hundred" since "thousand" isn't on the list) most commonly used words in the English ...
myExperiment, the social networking site for scientists, has set out to challenge traditional ideas of academic publishing as it enters a new phase of funding.
Other
Jul 16, 2009
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Quantum computers, devices that perform computations by exploiting quantum mechanical phenomena, have the potential to outperform classical computers on some tasks and optimization problems. In recent years, research teams ...
The ease of finding information on the internet is hurting students' long-term retention and resulting in lower grades on exams, according to a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study.
Education
Aug 18, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, has beaten out Harvard to take the top spot for the first time since they started this ranking ...
