Is there a 'right way' to teach? Recent debates suggest yes, but students and schools are much more complex
New South Wales has just announced a curriculum "shake-up" for primary schools to start in 2027.
New South Wales has just announced a curriculum "shake-up" for primary schools to start in 2027.
Education
Jul 25, 2024
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Who we choose as a partner depends in part on who we find attractive on the outside. Scientists have long wondered whether potential partners can also sense a woman's fertility, for example through subtle changes in her body ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2024
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A new study by Dr. Jordan Mallon of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada and Dr. David Hone of Queen Mary University of London, U.K., looks at the maximum possible sizes of dinosaurs. It is published in the journal ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 24, 2024
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Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a study published July 17, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mariano Del Papa of National ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 17, 2024
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A trio of environmental specialists at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, in Japan, has found that Japanese honeybees sometimes resort to slapping ants with their wings to prevent their entry into their nest.
Short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) were listed under the category of globally controlled persistent organic pollutants (POPs) by the Stockholm Convention in 2017. However, SCCPs toxicity, particularly its developmental ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 16, 2024
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Novel ways to move on other celestial bodies always draw the attention of the space exploration community. Here at UT, we've reported on everything from robots that suspend themselves from the walls of Martian caves to robots ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 15, 2024
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A study published in the journal Science China Earth Sciences integrates existing monitoring data to discuss the characteristics of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from reservoirs in the Yellow River Basin. While CO2 emission ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 11, 2024
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Taylor Swift's past struggles with body image, disordered eating, and body objectification have had an overall positive influence on her fans' attitudes on these issues, a new study from University of Vermont (UVM) researchers ...
Social Sciences
Jul 10, 2024
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Researchers have developed TetrapodTraits—a global database of animals with four feet—which can now be applied for better ecology, evolution and conservation research. Mario Moura of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2024
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