To students in Jennifer Burg's computer science classes, making music is the main objective. But her goal is to get them to understand how the underlying technology works – and to love it so much they decide on a science-based ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2013
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Preschool children who showed less ability to estimate the number of objects in a group were 2.4 times more likely to have a later mathematical learning disability than other young people, according to a team of University ...
Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2013
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What does it mean to have "cooked" something? Is heat the only way to break down proteins and transform raw ingredients?
Other
Sep 11, 2023
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If you want teams of students to stay engaged while playing educational games, you might want them to switch seats pretty often. That's one finding from a pilot study that evaluated how well middle school students were able ...
Social Sciences
Jul 15, 2013
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Public primary schools were created by states to reinforce obedience among the masses and maintain social order, rather than serve as a tool for upward social mobility, suggests a study from the University of California San ...
Education
Apr 29, 2022
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For the past several years, Jessica Cantlon has been working to understand how humans develop the concept of numbers, from simple counting to complex mathematical reasoning. Early in her career at the University of Rochester, ...
Evolution
Jan 18, 2017
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Farmers used to worry about weeds. Then, herbicides solved that problem. At least for a while. In 1997, there were 432 new patents for herbicides; by 2009, there were only 65.
Other
Sep 19, 2022
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Halogen bonding, hyperconjugation, electroactive polymers—-such subjects are typical fare in graduate-level chemistry courses. But how many classes challenge students to explain the concepts to the whole world?
Other
Aug 26, 2010
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A team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have revealed the first crystal structures of the receptor-binding domain of botulinum neurotoxin E (BoNT/E) in complex with its human neuronal receptors, synaptic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 27, 2023
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Have you ever actually recycled a pair of pants or an old T-shirt?
Other
Oct 4, 2023
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