Classroom programs designed to improve elementary school students' social and emotional skills can also increase reading and math achievement, even if academic improvement is not a direct goal of the skills building, according ...
Social Sciences
Mar 6, 2014
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a computational tool designed to guide future research on biochemical pathways by identifying which components in a biological system are related to specific ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 6, 2014
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For Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant parents and their children, success is equal to getting straight As, graduating from an elite university and pursuing an advanced degree. However, these narrow measures of success can ...
Social Sciences
Mar 6, 2014
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Just as she was about to retire, Lily Ledbetter, a production supervisor at an Alabama tire plant, learned that her employers had financially discriminated against her throughout her career. She filed suit for pay discrimination, ...
Economics & Business
Mar 6, 2014
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The strength of the team—not the promise of a close contest—is the biggest draw to crowds in international cricket, new research has found.
Mathematics
Mar 6, 2014
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The zone of overlap between two popular, closely related backyard birds is moving northward at a rate that matches warming winter temperatures, according to a study by researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Villanova ...
Ecology
Mar 6, 2014
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After more than a decade of incremental – and paradigm shifting, advances in stem cell biology, almost anyone with a basic understanding of life sciences knows that stem cells are the basic form of cell from which all specialized ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 6, 2014
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Astronomers have witnessed for the first time the breakup of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. The discovery is published online March 6 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Astronomy
Mar 6, 2014
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Researchers at the Cambridge Service Alliance at the University of Cambridge, have suggested new ways of increasing the uptake of electric car usage.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 6, 2014
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Respiratory diseases are the greatest mortality risk for export cattle on long sea voyages according to PhD research by a local veterinary scientist.
Other
Mar 6, 2014
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