Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.
Social Sciences
Apr 17, 2024
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It can be demoralizing for a person to work in a climate of repetitive skepticism and doubt about what they know, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Apr 16, 2024
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Late last week, the remains of a missing 12-year-old girl were found after she was taken by a saltwater crocodile in the Northern Territory.
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2024
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Scientists are increasingly studying quantum entanglement, which occurs when two or more systems are created or interact in such a manner that the quantum states of some cannot be described independently of the quantum states ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 3, 2023
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545
Contemporary humans are still evolving, but natural selection favors those with lower earnings and poorer education—according to research from the University of East Anglia.
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2022
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Sexuality education often fails LGBTQIA2S+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit with the + indicating other identities not listed) students, few of whom report ever receiving inclusive ...
Social Sciences
Dec 1, 2022
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Whiteness is an invention of the modern, colonial age. It refers to the racialisation of white people and the disproportionate privilege—social, linguistic, economic, political—that comes with this. Crucially, as an invention, ...
Education
Mar 27, 2023
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There's a strange trend in mathematics education in England. Math is the most popular subject at A-level since overtaking English in 2014. It's taken by around 85,000 and 90,000 students a year.
Mathematics
May 5, 2024
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100
The level of public acceptance of evolution in the United States is now solidly above the halfway mark, according to a new study based on a series of national public opinion surveys conducted over the last 35 years.
Social Sciences
Aug 20, 2021
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Girls are routinely being given more generous grades than boys with the same academic competences, a new study of tens of thousands of pupils and their teachers concludes.
Education
Oct 18, 2022
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