Children who attend preschool enter kindergarten with greater skills than those who don't, but that advantage is nearly halved by the end of the year as their counterparts quickly begin to catch up, according to research ...
Education
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The development of a stretchable display that can be bent, stretched, and attached to the skin as a free-standing film appeared in science fiction films is expected to be one step closer. The research team led by Prof. Tae-Woo ...
Materials Science
Oct 5, 2020
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Scientists have made significant progress in understanding the sources of radiation events that could impact human space-flight operations. Relativistic electron precipitation (REP) events are instances when high energy electrons ...
Space Exploration
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The Nobel science prizes reward not only the individual laureates, but also their universities, a competition won by far by the United States' prestigious faculties.
Other
Oct 5, 2020
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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), a two-dimensional (2-D) semiconductor, are promising materials for next-generation optoelectronic devices. They can emit strong light due to the large binding energies of excitons, ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 5, 2020
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In a new research paper published in Police Quarterly, University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs Assistant Professor Paul Taylor found officers can significantly improve shoot/no-shoot decisions by simply lowering ...
Social Sciences
Oct 5, 2020
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Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, paving the way for a cure, the Nobel jury said.
Other
Oct 5, 2020
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The staggering scale of California's wildfires reached another milestone Monday: A single fire surpassed 1 million acres.
Environment
Oct 5, 2020
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For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg, Ph.D., member and Robert E. King Distinguished Investigator and other researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental ...
Biotechnology
Oct 5, 2020
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Since its birth in the laboratory, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology has developed into an industry worth tens of billions of dollars in the past three decades. In industrial applications, the phosphorescent ...
Materials Science
Oct 5, 2020
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