Improving access to cycling can benefit women in marginalized neighborhoods
Research has shown that cycling offers environmental, health, economic and social benefits.
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2020
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Seductive details inhibit learning
When teachers use a funny joke, a cat video or even background music in their lessons, it can keep students from understanding the main content.
Education
Mar 19, 2020
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Research finds gender bias in textbooks of Indonesia and other Muslim majority countries
Indonesia does well compared to other Muslim countries in getting girls into schools. Female enrollment in primary and secondary education is around 90% and 80% respectively, while the proportions of boys and girls in school ...
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2020
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Building a better color vision test for animals
Fiddler crabs have a simple solution to life's daily perils: run.
Evolution
Mar 19, 2020
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Scientists transform ultra-tough pollen into flexible material
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a way to turn pollen, one of the hardest materials in the plant kingdom, into a soft and flexible material, with the potential to serve ...
Materials Science
Mar 19, 2020
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Iron is everywhere in Earth's vicinity, suggest two decades of Cluster data
Using over 18 years of data from ESA's Cluster mission, scientists have mapped the heavy metals in the space surrounding Earth, finding an unexpected distribution and prevalence of iron and shedding light on the composition ...
Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2020
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Dark matter and massive galaxies
About 85% of the matter in the universe is in the form of dark matter, whose nature remains a mystery, and the rest is of the kind found in atoms. Dark matter exhibits gravity but otherwise does not interact with normal matter, ...
Astronomy
Mar 19, 2020
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Small robots practice scouting skills for future moon mission
The upgraded Autonomous Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot, or A-PUFFER, is on a roll. The technology could find itself on a commercial lunar lander in the next few years.
Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2020
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Organellogenesis still a work in progress in novel dinoflagellates
Many algae and plant species contain photosynthetic membrane-bound organelles called plastids that are actually remnants of a free-living cyanobacterium. At some point in evolutionary history, a cyanobacterium was engulfed ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 19, 2020
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When consumers want plastic, but also worry about the planet
Would the world stop drinking Coca-Cola if it no longer came in single-use plastic bottles?
Environment
Mar 19, 2020
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