Crowds improve home court advantage in the NBA, study finds
Playing in front of fans improves the home court advantage of elite basketball teams, new research has found.
Social Sciences
Feb 22, 2023
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News tagged with winning
Do winners cheat more? New research refutes previous high-profile study
New large-scale research led by the University of Leicester shows that winning does not cause people to cheat, in stark contrast to a previous high-profile study.
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2022
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Fresh from the ISS: How high school students are leading an experiment on space-made yogurt
It's probably no surprise that keeping healthy in space is incredibly important. And without the typical resources found on Earth, creative solutions have to be explored.
Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2022
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NASA wants to harvest water on moon and Mars, and students think they can help
Deep beneath Mars' red clay surface lie ancient oceans now frozen into ice sheets. Earth's moon has hidden water deposits, too—pockets embedded deep inside its rocks.
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2021
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NASA seeks student tech ideas for suborbital launch
NASA is calling on all sixth through 12th-grade educators and students to submit experiments for possible suborbital flights as a way of gaining firsthand experience with the design and testing process used by NASA researchers.
Education
Aug 19, 2021
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After climate court victories comes the problem of enforcement
Marjan Minnesma cheered along with her fellow climate activists in May when a judge ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc to drastically slash its carbon dioxide emissions. It was the first time a company had been held legally accountable ...
Environment
Aug 18, 2021
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Modelling galactic settlement
What looks like a still of an exploding firework is actually taken from an ESA simulation of humankind's expansion across the stars, produced for an international competition. Each dot is a habitable star system, with the ...
Astronomy
Jun 26, 2019
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Statistics predict France and Germany as UEFA EURO favorites
When Europe's best national football teams kick off the UEFA EURO 2016 on June 10th, host France and World Cup Champion Germany will, mathematically speaking, also be the odds-on favorites as statisticians headed by Achim ...
Mathematics
May 31, 2016
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Has winning the lottery jackpot become too difficult?
The UK's National Lottery recently added more balls to its Lotto machines, meaning that the chances of winning the jackpot are smaller. Has this ruined the fun? Do the lower odds mean that the vast majority of weeks are likely ...
Mathematics
Jan 14, 2016
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Mathematician calculates the real chances of winning Powerball's largest jackpot
Lottery officials have announced the Powerball jackpot has reached a record-smashing $1.5 billion. That has sent fortune-seeking Americans to gas stations and grocery stores in droves to try their luck. Unfortunately, the ...
Mathematics
Jan 13, 2016
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