A popular internet meme juxtaposes a picture of a female scientist working in a lab captioned "Vaccine Research" with that of a woman looking at her smart phone while sitting on the toilet captioned "Anti-Vax Research." The ...
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2022
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A cutting-edge digital tool that will make it cheaper, safer and faster for pharmaceutical companies to predict protein stability—a vital step in the development of new medicines—is being rolled out by scientists from ...
Biochemistry
May 27, 2021
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Encouraging adolescents to feel capable and purposeful—rather than just happy—could improve their academic results as well as their mental health, according to new research which recommends changing how well-being is ...
Social Sciences
Jul 5, 2023
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The challenges of motherhood often lead women to leave academia after their first child. In fact, studies in the United States suggest that about 50% of women scientists in the U.S. leave science after motherhood. To address ...
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2023
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With the school year coming to a close at districts across the country, education leaders fear that many students have struggled with online classrooms and fallen behind in their learning. As a result, they expect the so-called ...
Education
May 21, 2020
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Some youth go all in to excel at a sport. But having a backup plan is a smart move. One day your athletic career will probably end, no matter how good you are. You'll have done yourself a favor by acquiring an education as ...
Education
Sep 9, 2022
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Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis became freely available online this week, and promptly crashed a server following massive public interest.
Other
Oct 27, 2017
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This month, a scientific paper by teams working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN set the record for the number of authors on a paper – with more than 5,000 contributors. In the same week, a genomics paper had more than ...
Other
May 27, 2015
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The education of care-experienced children should be redefined to include a much broader range of activities to better support their development and success, a new study says.
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2023
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One third of men in academic science are willing to scale back their careers to focus on family life, according to researchers.
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2014
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