650 million women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday. That's one of the startling figures contained in a 2021 UNICEF report about child marriage. Africa's sub-Saharan region is home to nine of the ...
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2022
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The top 25 math apps for children under five-years-old do not reflect best practices on how children learn and develop their early mathematical skills, according to a new report from IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society.
Mathematics
May 30, 2022
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Developing new materials requires significant time and labor, but some chemists are now hopeful that artificial intelligence (AI) could one day shoulder much of this burden. In a new study in the Journal of the American Chemical ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 10, 2023
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Firearm sales increased to approximately 2.5 million in March 2020, an estimated 85% increase compared to March 2019. Firearm-related injuries and deaths also increased during the pandemic. What drove people to purchase firearms ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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Recently published U.K. government plans proposed that by 2030, 90% of children leaving primary school in England should reach the expected standards in reading, writing and math, compared with 65% in 2019.
Mathematics
May 17, 2022
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For everyone whose relationship with mathematics is distant or broken, Jo Boaler, a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), has ideas for repairing it. She particularly wants young people to feel comfortable ...
Mathematics
May 21, 2024
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Ever since the industrial revolution, people have feared that technology would take away their jobs. While some jobs and tasks have indeed been replaced by machines, others have emerged. The success of ChatGPT and other generative ...
Economics & Business
Jul 31, 2023
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A new analysis of adolescent TV and films on Netflix suggests that too often, it shows misleading depictions of pain, portraying pain as something arising only through a violent act or injury. Instead of trivializing the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2024
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In the past two decades, researchers have made great strides in uncovering how children learn math, but little of that new knowledge has trickled down to teachers, according to a new book on math education.
Education
Jan 10, 2023
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A new University of California, Irvine-led study establishes important conceptual connections between the fields of circadian rhythms, metabolism, and addiction. Going beyond current studies on substance use disorders, which ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 11, 2022
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