As students return to school and cold and flu season begins, researchers are studying ways to improve indoor air quality and reduce the risk of airborne disease transmission.
Education
Sep 23, 2026
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Young people who grow up experiencing persistent poverty are more than three times as likely to be not in education, employment or training (NEET) at 17 or 23 (3.3 and 3.4 times, respectively), according to new analysis of ...
Economics & Business
Sep 16, 2026
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A new study finds that while most Americans are interested in science and believe it benefits society, the public's relationship with science is more complicated than those positive views suggest.
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2026
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Does the academic discipline of a scientist's doctorate accurately capture their disciplinary affiliation decades later? Consider a scientist who earned a doctorate in physics 25 years ago who now studies climate change, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2026
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A study by Politecnico di Milano and the University of Insubria (Varese and Como) has been published in PLOS Digital Health. The study involved more than 700 children from primary and lower secondary school. The participants ...
Education
Sep 11, 2026
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A new study of 4,200 adolescents revealed that cyberbullying rarely occurs in isolation; it almost always functions as an extension of physical and verbal aggression already present in the school environment. The study, conducted ...
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2026
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U.S. colleges and universities have long struggled to increase the racial diversity of their faculty.
Education
Oct 9, 2026
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A teenage boy goes to the gym several times a week. He takes protein powder and watches what he eats carefully. He talks about being "ripped" or "jacked."
Social Sciences
Oct 9, 2026
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An international research effort has examined how children develop the ability to express what story characters think, feel and perceive. Research groups from around the world collected 5,507 picture-based stories from 2,763 ...
Education
Oct 8, 2026
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The OECD reports schools worldwide are under growing strain from teacher shortages. "It is getting harder to recruit, retain and deploy qualified teachers where they are most needed," it has found.
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2026
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