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Structure more effective in high school science classes, study reveals

Self-led, self-structured inquiry may be the best method to train scientists at the college level and beyond, but it's not the ideal way for all high school students to prepare for college science.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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Revolving door: Yahoo ushers out another CEO (Update 4)

(AP) -- Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

X-ray crystallography study finds way to allosterically inhibit disease-related enzyme caspase-6

Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball card, but University of Massachusetts Amherst doctoral student Elih M. Velázquez-Delgado, who gave up a pitching career for science, does. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Middle school boys who are reluctant readers value reading more after using e-readers: study

Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an e-reader, according to a new study.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study: Less-privileged women more likely to succeed in STEM fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers and educators have long tried to encourage young women to consider science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, as career fields in an effort to address the shortage of females in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Pseudosciences are destroying the reputation of Australia's universities

The international credibility of Australia’s universities is being undermined by the increase in the “pseudoscientific” health courses they offer, two academics have written in today’s ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Floor of oldest forest discovered in Schoharie County

Scientists from Binghamton University and Cardiff University, and New York State Museum researchers, and have reported the discovery of the floor of the world's oldest forest in a cover article in the March ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Gamers on 3-D mission to save world, just don't tell them they are learning cell biology

After growing up on an entertainment diet of X-Men and Xbox, high school and college-age students may find a textbook on cell biology to be a little, well, bland.

Technology / Software

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scripps Research alumnus wins International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

A powerful 3D animation tool created by Graham Johnson at The Scripps Research Institute has been selected as the winning video in the ninth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists X-ray key enzyme of common pathogen crystallized in living cells

An international team of scientists has for the first time crystallised a key enzyme of the pathogen for African sleeping sickness in a living cell and investigated it with the world’s strongest X-ray laser. This new ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tradable harvest quotas may save whales: study

Every year, a group of anti-whaling nonprofit organizations that includes Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, and the World Wildlife Fund spend, by conservative estimates, some $25 million on a variety of activities intended to end ...

Biology / Ecology

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