Put yourself in the exoskeleton of a bumble bee for a moment: Your world would be a riot of colors and scents, both essential to guide your search for pollen and nectar. Bumble bees have excellent vision: They have a pair ...
Plants & Animals
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When results come out for big education tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which primarily measures 15-year-old students' knowledge and skills in reading, mathematics and science, the focus ...
Education
Dec 6, 2019
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology used behavioral experiments to show that desert ants quickly learn many food odors and remember them for the rest of their lives. However, their memory for nest ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2018
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The Brazilian stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula (jataí in Portuguese) deploys a different strategy for defending its nests from other social insect species. In addition to posting sentinels at the nest entrance, as do ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2018
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology report in Current Biology that in the absence of visible landmarks, desert ants increase the likelihood that foraging nest mates will find their way home quickly ...
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2023
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It's often said that ants can predict impending rain and respond by changing their behaviour.
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2018
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German researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin found that even a short test can reliably predict students' success within their first year of study in economics—much ...
Education
Mar 13, 2020
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When the University of California decided in early 2020 to stop using the ACT and SAT in admissions by 2025, the decision sparked discussions anew about how fair and useful college entrance exams are in the first place.
Education
Jul 9, 2020
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Low-income students with advanced academic abilities are far less likely than their wealthier peers to have access to resources that would help them succeed, according to a new report co-authored by researchers from Johns ...
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2018
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