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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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...
Mapping a lake by GPS positioning and depth sounder by boat is very time-consuming, therefore the researchers decided to use a theory driven approach in the study.
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What is the volume of water in lakes on Earth? Using...
Behavioral experiments have shown that women share a sum of money more generously than men.
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Behavioral experiments have shown that women share a sum of money more generously than men. To gain a more in-depth understanding...
People who are highly materialistic tend to use Facebook frequently and intensely.
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If you're materialistic, you're likely to use Facebook more frequently and intensely. A new paper in Heliyon reveals that materialistic people see and treat...
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...
New research from King's College London finds that teacher assessments are equally as reliable as standardised exams at predicting educational success.
The researchers say their findings, published today in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, question whether the benefits of...
Dr. Nolan Damon showing the online mathematics assessment that he developed.
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Online mathematics assessment (OMA) could help improve the mathematics performance of deaf and hard-of-hearing learners in South Africa.
This is one of the key findings...
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Children from low-income families are at substantial risk in terms of their social-emotional and academic skills at school entry, with fewer than half considered ready for school at age 5. A new study has found that...
To evaluate infants’ intuition regarding what other people value, researchers showed them videos in which an agent (red bouncing ball) decides whether it’s worth the effort to leap over an obstacle to reach a goal (blue cartoon character).
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