English is the most used language on the Internet, and globally most of the people who speak or write in English are non-native speakers. A new database of annotated English sentences written by non-native speakers could help improve how...
Education leads to a longer life.
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People who are overweight cut their life expectancy by two months for every extra kilogramme of weight they carry, research suggests.
A major study of the genes that...
Outdoor learning can have a significant and positive impact on children's quality of life but needs to be introduced more formally into global school curricula in order for its potential benefits to be fully realised, a new report suggests.
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About half of the genes that influence how well a child can read also play a role in their mathematics ability, say scientists who led a study into the genetic basis of cognitive traits.
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Around half...
Men and women might speak with higher-pitched voices towards high status people because a low-pitched voice sounds dominant, particularly in men, while a high-pitched voice sounds relatively submissive.
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People tend to change the pitch of their...
Interactions through music help people to minimize feelings of prejudice while boosting empathy for others unlike themselves, a researcher has found.
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Jake Harwood turned his lifelong hobby as a musician into a scholarly question: Could the...
Brad Mahon, Ph.D., Dan Fabbio, and Web Pilcher, M.D., Ph.D., watching footage of surgery to remove tumor from Fabbio's brain.
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Music is not only a major part of Dan Fabbio's life, as...
Parents feel schools can handle basic first aid, but are less sure about urgent health situations such as an asthma attack or mental health issue.
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Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies, a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/Jan Tik
Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies. This is one of the findings from a recent study coming from...
Despite efforts from No Child Left Behind to promote 'highly qualified' teaching, recent research shows that just 36 percent of new secondary science teachers are teaching only in their trained subject.
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Ryan Nixon spent four years studying...
Modeled microcapsules demonstrate 'quorum sensing' behavior. A small collection of microcapsules remains dormant (left) whereas a large, crowded population exhibits oscillations in chemical activity (right), represented by circular waves of color.
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From the smallest cell to humans, most...
