For adults, communicating in our first language feels easy and natural. Yet learning language is a complex process that is influenced by several factors.
Social Sciences
May 3, 2022
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Despite what many first-time parents may wish for, kids don't come with instruction manuals. Even seemingly straightforward developmental milestones, like when to introduce solid food, can vary across countries. And when ...
Education
Apr 20, 2022
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Scientists have developed a new technique to accelerate the discovery of cancer-fighting drugs. The technique identifies molecules that can shut down dangerous proteins before they wreak disease-triggering havoc, by blocking ...
Biochemistry
Apr 7, 2022
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In recent years, physicists and material scientists have uncovered several new platforms for studying correlated phases of matter, such as superconductivity and the correlated insulator phase. Among them is magic-angle twisted ...
Lipid rafts, a component of the plasma membranes that surround all cells in the human body, are essential in regulating the membranes' structure, among other functions. But they are hard to study because traditional biochemical ...
Biochemistry
Mar 28, 2022
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Researchers at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery and Hokkaido University have developed a virtual ligand-assisted (VLA) screening method that could drastically reduce the amount of trial and error required ...
Materials Science
Mar 14, 2022
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As students and families in some parts of Canada approach their spring breaks, busy parents and caregivers everywhere may be reminded of the COVID-19 pandemic's two-year anniversary of March 13, 2020.
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2022
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The introduction of lead-free metal halide powder into a scintillation screen took some tinkering. Once a KAUST team worked out the right technique, they were able to produce an exceptionally efficient, robust and flexible ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 28, 2022
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Lurking beneath overhanging foliage, archerfish have one thing on their mind: taking a well-aimed pot-shot at the next insect that settles within range. Squirting a ballistic jet of water, these tenacious assassins precisely ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2022
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James Dahlman and Phil Santangelo are helping to define an evolving era in medicine, one in which messenger ribonucleic acid—mRNA—can be delivered directly to cells to fight against disease. And their latest groundbreaking ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 10, 2022
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