Six decades after the Supreme Court outlawed separating students by race, stubborn disparities persist in how the country educates its poor and minority children.
Social Sciences
May 17, 2016
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Winter has been over for nearly two months, but you wouldn't know it from recent conditions at the tallest peak in the Northeast.
Earth Sciences
May 17, 2016
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Professor Hannes Lohi's research group at the University of Helsinki has discovered three novel canine genes for Caffey, Raine and van den Ende-Gupta syndromes. Research reveals close similarities of the canine models of ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2016
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The ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa could have the necessary balance of chemical energy for life, even if the moon lacks volcanic hydrothermal activity, finds a new study.
Space Exploration
May 17, 2016
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Imagine burglars have targeted your home, but before they break in, you've already moved and are safe from harm.
Security
May 17, 2016
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Designing materials that better respond to dynamic loading can help vehicles minimize vibration, better protect military convoys or potentially make buildings safer during an earthquake.
General Physics
May 17, 2016
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As the human brain develops, neurons leave their birthplace and take a trip to distant locations. Once they reach their final destination, the neurons then send out axons and dendrites—the branches that receive and send ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 17, 2016
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When the makers of the globe-hopping video game "Overwatch" were coming up with the backstory for a character with the ability to freeze enemies and erect ice walls, their initial inclination was to make her homeland a stereotypically ...
Software
May 17, 2016
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Relationship satisfaction and the energy devoted to keeping a partner are dependent on how the partner compares with other potential mates, a finding that relates to evolution's stronghold on modern relationship psychology, ...
Evolution
May 17, 2016
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The overall health of Chesapeake Bay improved in 2015, according to scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The largest estuary in the nation scored a C (53%) in 2015, one of the three highest ...
Environment
May 17, 2016
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