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.
Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan
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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...
Musicians are monitored to determine how they anticipate one another's moves.
Credit: McMaster University
Researchers at McMaster are one step closer to solving one of the mysteries of social interaction: how musicians communicate during a performance and anticipate one another's moves...
Bees.
Credit: Image courtesy of Taylor & Francis
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....
The changing economy has been hard on all workers with less than a high school education, but especially devastating for black men, say authors of a new report.
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After years of progress, the median earnings...
Overall divergent thinking (ODT) score.
Credit: Ritter et al (2017)
Listening to happy music may help generate more, innovative solutions compared to listening to silence, according to a study published September 6, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Simone...
Men with university level education were 19% more likely to develop a glioma--a type of cancerous tumor arising in glial cells that surround and support neurons in the brain--than men whose educational attainment didn't extend beyond the period of...
Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several other beneficial learning outcomes, new research suggests.
The findings are from a year-long University of Cambridge study with...
What if improving academic performance in some of the nation's most disadvantaged and lowest-achieving schools was as easy as planting trees in the schoolyard? It's not that simple, of course, but a new study from the University of Illinois...
Later start times could help Canadian teens’ grades and health, research indicates.Credit: Image courtesy of McGill University
Later start times could help Canadian teens' grades and health, research indicates
Delaying school start times could help Canadian teenagers sleep better -- giving...
Children who play the violin or study piano could be learning more than just Mozart. A University of Vermont College of Medicine child psychiatry team has found that musical training might also help kids focus their attention, control their...
