Crew of first private flight to ISS head back to Earth
The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departed the orbiting laboratory on Monday to head back to Earth.
The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departed the orbiting laboratory on Monday to head back to Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2022
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When cities or counties institute plastic bag bans or fees, the idea is to reduce the amount of plastic headed to the landfill.
Environment
Mar 29, 2022
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine, we keep hearing that this war is like no other; because Ukrainians have cellphones and access to social media platforms, the traditional control of information and propaganda cannot work and ...
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2022
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Physicists from Trinity College Dublin and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid have made a peculiar discovery in which energy moves from a colder to a hotter region.
Quantum Physics
Mar 28, 2022
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In today's global society, bilingualism is increasingly common. Many grow up with one language at home and another at school. In a new dissertation at UmeƄ University, Baran Johansson has investigated how children in grades ...
Education
Feb 21, 2022
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Nobody is more excited for the release of a census than a genealogist. I have been researching family trees for 20 years and I have seen the release of key documents, including the 1911 census and the 1939 register, which ...
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2022
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Social robots can support teachers in, for example, individual second language lessons where gestures increase children's engagement and promote learning. They can thus relieve the pressure on overloaded classrooms. Robots, ...
Education
Jan 20, 2022
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On Jan. 1, 2022, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope officially passed the one-billion second mark.
Astronomy
Jan 6, 2022
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Learning to read in English is not just about using context (e.g., pictures) to guess the meaning of the words on the page but also about being aware of the sounds in words and their use. This ability, called "phonological ...
Education
Dec 2, 2021
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Young people who consider themselves 'multilingual' tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research shows.
Education
Nov 11, 2021
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