The gender stereotypes and cultural norms of a child's family heritage impacts their academic performance in Australian schools, research led by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre shows.
Economics & Business
May 22, 2019
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A trio of researchers with Hampden-Sydney College has found that exposure to oil does not damage or clog whale baleen. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, Alexander Werth, Shemar Blakeney and ...
The type of poverty children are born into and how long they remain in that situation has an impact on early childhood outcomes, including school readiness.
Education
May 22, 2019
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When Hurricane Michael roared onto northwest Florida's Gulf Coast in October 2018, its 160 mile-per-hour winds made it the strongest storm ever to hit the region. It was only the fourth Category 5 storm on record to make ...
Environment
May 22, 2019
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Cities in the United States are getting less segregated and, according to a recent national survey, most Americans value the country's racial diversity.
Social Sciences
May 22, 2019
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Most of the water used by people in Egypt comes from the Nile River, which originates from precipitation over mountainous areas in the Ethiopian highlands. In areas far from the Nile River Valley, however, where water is ...
Environment
May 22, 2019
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As a child visiting his grandmother's farm in Illinois, Alex Jahn used to gaze up into the evening sky and watch Canada geese on their long flight home for summer.
Ecology
May 22, 2019
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Space missions demand we make the best use of our resources—and that's something we could learn from at home.
Space Exploration
May 22, 2019
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While today Venus is a very inhospitable place with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, geological evidence, supported by computer model simulations, indicate it may have been much cooler billions of years ago and ...
Space Exploration
May 22, 2019
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The technology that unboiled the egg is being used to help improve people's capacity to absorb fish oil.
Nanomaterials
May 22, 2019
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