The COVID-19 pandemic caused historic learning setbacks for America's children, sparing no state or region as it erased decades of academic progress and widened racial disparities, according to results of a national test ...
Education
Oct 24, 2022
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Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year's high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years—the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.
Education
Oct 12, 2022
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A novel single-grain composition analysis technology has recently been developed to help evaluate the eating quality of hybrid rice, according to a research team led by Prof. Wu Yuejin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 10, 2022
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After an extreme weather event, such as Hurricane Ian which devastated parts of Florida last month, most Americans choose to rebuild rather than move to less hazardous areas.
Environment
Oct 9, 2022
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High-quality peer review has never been more important to validate the science we publish. With research integrity regularly hitting the headlines, especially since the COVID pandemic, publishers and reviewers play a pivotal ...
Other
Sep 21, 2022
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Cockles have been harvested along the south Wales coast for centuries. The Burry Inlet and Loughor estuary, near Swansea, is a major habitat for the popular and widespread common cockle (Cerastoderma edule).
Ecology
Sep 21, 2022
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Proponents of full inclusion—placing students with disabilities in general classrooms for most of the school day—maintain that the more time those students spend in such classes, the better they do academically. A new ...
Education
Sep 19, 2022
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Not everything needs to be seen to be believed; certain things are more readily heard, like a train approaching its station. In a recent paper, published in Physical Review Letters, researchers have put their ears to the ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 12, 2022
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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is back in action after a three-year scheduled technical shutdown period. Experts circulated beam in the powerful particle accelerator at the end of April, and Run 3 physics started in early ...
General Physics
Aug 31, 2022
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Studying a high-energy neutrino that was observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole and that is believed to be intergalactic in origin has yielded some intriguing "new physics" beyond the Standard Model
General Physics
Aug 29, 2022
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