What can sign language teach us about music?
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How do we detect the meaning of music? We may gain some insights by looking at an unlikely source, sign language, a newly released linguistic analysis concludes.
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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...
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 help academically talented students, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined a century of...
Hai-Bo Yu is an assistant professor of theoretical particle physics and astrophysics at UC Riverside.
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Identical twins are similar to each other in many ways, but they have different experiences, friends, and lifestyles.
This...
Taking the Oath of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony is an emotional moment for many immigrants, and for good reason: it is the culmination of an often arduous process and many years of striving. Citizenship also opens a new...
Comprehensive Research Review Confirms Positive School Climates Can Narrow Achievement Gaps. Image Credit: Flickr/lupuca
Positive school climates contribute to academic achievement and can improve outcomes for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, according to a new study published in Review...
This study found there is a moderate, yet significant, correlation between handedness and mathematical skill, report researchers.
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A link between handedness and mathematical skills exists, but is more complex than is thought according to a...
Undergraduate computer science programs at universities and colleges in the United States appear to produce more skilled students on average than equivalent programs in China, India and Russia, according to new Stanford-led research.
An international group of scholars led by...
These are the coral fragments analyzed in this study. All pieces are small (3-5 cm in longest dimension). Specimens shown are after physical cleaning (in water). All specimens shown are corals of the genus Pocillopora, except 1C, which is...
County-level annual damages in the median scenario for the climate from 2080 to 2099 under a business-as-usual emissions trajectory. Negative damages indicate economic benefits.
Credit: Hsiang, Kopp, Jina, Rising, et al (2017).
Unmitigated climate change will make the United States poorer...
Bees.
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The effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on bees has been widely covered in the news recently, with laboratory-based studies suggesting that the chemicals are harmful, and field studies which are much less clear cut....
