Adding extra classroom time to the school day may only result in marginal gains for pupils who have lost learning during the COVID pandemic, a study says.
Education
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In general, plastics are processed at way over a hundred degrees Celsius. Enzymes, by contrast, cannot usually withstand these high temperatures. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP have ...
Polymers
Jun 1, 2021
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Stimulated scattering in supermode microcavities, such as Raman or Brillouin lasers, has shown unprecedented merit for precision measurements by exploiting the beat note in their lasing spectra. This beat note corresponds ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 1, 2021
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A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has found that Eurasian jays are less likely than people to be deceived by well-known magic tricks. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...
The mass of human chromosomes, which contain the instructions for life in nearly every cell of our bodies, has been measured with X-rays for the first time in a new study led by UCL researchers.
Biotechnology
Jun 1, 2021
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A new study of historical carbon dioxide levels stresses urgent action is needed to avoid prehistoric levels of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2021
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The poverty consequences of the pandemic should be given as much importance by policy-makers as its mortality consequences, according to new research from the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University ...
Social Sciences
Jun 1, 2021
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Crop diseases threaten yields in the field. Pests and parasitic weeds cause high crop losses of up to 30 percent every year. In the FarmerSpace project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image ...
Agriculture
Jun 1, 2021
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Professor Andreas Michels, physicist at the University of Luxembourg, explores the complex world of magnetic materials by shooting neutrons on them. He has now published his insights in a 380-page monograph titled "Magnetic ...
Materials Science
Jun 1, 2021
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Dutch judges have ordered the major oil and gas company, Royal Dutch Shell, to implement stringent carbon dioxide emissions cuts within the next few years. It is a ruling which could have far reaching consequences.
Economics & Business
Jun 1, 2021
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