As educators and industry mull strategies for attracting more young adults to math-oriented professions, a new study in the journal Child Development suggests that children's early experiences doing math homework and activities ...
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2022
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Drug therapies that help older adults maintain their skeletal muscle mass and physical function for longer could be a step closer after researchers at the University of Birmingham identify a key mechanism that drives the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 23, 2020
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A team from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has become the first to make adult cells from a living organism retreat in their evolutionary development to recover the characteristics of embryonic stem cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 11, 2013
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Scientists at the Danish Stem Cell Center, DanStem, at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that they can make embryonic stem cells regress to a stage of development where they are able to make placenta cells as well ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 6, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Similarities in personal values and beliefs between an adult child and an older mother is what keeps that child in favor over the long-term, and that preference can have practical applications for mother's long-term ...
Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2013
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(Phys.org)—A comprehensive study at the University of Oregon, using cutting-edge genetic tools, shows that temperate and polar species of animals may be much more resilient to rapid climate change than previously expected.
Ecology
Oct 11, 2012
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New findings, out today, suggest children who tell blunt truths such as "I don't want this present—it's ugly!" are judged more harshly by adults than those who bend the truth to be polite or protect others.
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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Ukraine's population could decline by a third over the next two decades as a result of the Russian invasion, researchers at the University of St Andrews suggest.
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2022
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Entrepreneurship as vocation? As a talent, which reveals itself early on and is the requirement for a successful start-up? This is the prevailing - yet wrong - view. Entrepreneurship is an acquired skill. The capacity to ...
Economics & Business
May 13, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A newly defined genre of literature, "teen sick-lit," features tear-jerking stories of ill adolescents developing romantic relationships. Although "teen sick-lit" tends to adhere to negative stereotypes of the ...
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2012
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