Harmful microbes found on sewer pipe walls
Can antibiotic-resistant bacteria escape from sewers into waterways and cause a disease outbreak?
Environment
Jul 06, 2020
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News tagged with science standards
Researchers create novel platform to standardize paleoclimatology data
Sometimes the most unrelated things can produce the most innovative results. Take, for instance, aikido—a Japanese martial art that can be translated as the "way of unifying energy"—and paleoclimatology, a scientific ...
Environment
Jan 24, 2020
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New understanding of charge transport reveals an exotic quantum mechanical regime
In work that may have broad implications for the development of new materials for electronics, Caltech scientists for the first time have developed a way to predict how electrons interacting strongly with atomic motions will ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 10, 2019
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New decadal survey for the social and behavioral sciences presents guidance to the intelligence community
The social and behavioral sciences (SBS) offer an essential contribution to the mission of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), a mission that requires an understanding of what human beings do, how, and why, says a new report ...
Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2019
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Teach kids about climate change? This state might require it
A legislative proposal in Connecticut would mandate instruction on climate change in public schools statewide, beginning in elementary school.
Environment
Jan 16, 2019
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Proposed New Mexico science standards omit global warming
A proposed overhaul of New Mexico's state science standards for public schools came under intense criticism Monday at a packed public hearing in the state capital for omitting or deleting references to global warming, evolution ...
Social Sciences
Oct 16, 2017
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Researchers make five recommendations for standardized test designers
Can standardized tests, such as those created in response to the Common Core, enhance education instead of just assessing it? For standardized testing to benefit students, researchers recommend that the tests are used as ...
Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2015
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Science educators analyze genetics content of Next Generation Science Standards
The genetics content of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) - a recent set of performance-based expectations for elementary, middle, and high school students in science classes - represents, on average, a modest ...
Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2015
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Group calls for more transparency in science research, announces guidelines
An international group of academic leaders, journal editors and funding-agency representatives and disciplinary leaders, including Rick Wilson, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair of Political Science and professor of statistics ...
Other
Jun 25, 2015
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Wyoming is first state to reject science standards
Wyoming is the first state to reject adopting new K-12 science standards proposed by national education groups.
Other
May 08, 2014
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