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Gifted students benefit from ability grouping

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Ability grouping places students of similar skills and abilities in the same classes. Image Credit: Flickr/breadfortheworld Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to...

Miami doctors publish study of first locally-acquired Zika transmission

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This is a rash on patient's stomach.Credit: The New England Journal of Medicine Following the recent Zika outbreak in Miami-Dade County, a multidisciplinary team of...

Chemist develops new theory for explaining the function of proteins

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Open and closed forms of channel proteins, which function by changing their shape. Credit: University of Arkansas A University of Arkansas chemist and his collaborator...

Technique enables adaptable 3-D printing

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MIT chemists have now developed a 3-D printing technique that allows them to print objects and then go back and add new polymers that...

Researchers find neurons that orient bats toward destination

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Photo of an Egyptian fruit bat. Sarel et al. report on a new functional class of hippocampal neurons in bats, which encode the direction...

Scientists tie the tightest knot ever achieved

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The X-ray crystal structure of a 192-atom-loop molecular 819 knot featuring iron ions (shown in purple), oxygen atoms (red), nitrogen atoms (dark blue), carbon...

Wearable biosensors can flag illness, Lyme disease, risk for diabetes; low...

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Researchers found that smart watches and other personal biosensor devices can help flag when people have colds and even signal the onset of complex...

Crybaby: The Vitamins in Your Tears

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The research team from Michigan Tech only needed to gather a few microliters of tears to analyze the vitamins in them.Credit: Sarah Bird, Michigan...

New system for forming memories

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Rats roam around an arena (A) before tackling a maze memory task. A reward awaits them in the T-maze placed in the arena (B)....

Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels

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In situ image of the recorded baboons.Credit: © Caralyn Kemp and Julie Gullstrand / Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology (CNRS/AMU Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels....

The moon is older than scientists thought

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This is astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. on the moon in 1971 with the Apollo 14 mission.Credit: NASA Formation occurred 4.51 billion years ago, millions...