A new study from the University of Calgary shows how dexamethasone, the main treatment for severe COVID-19 lung infections, alters how immune cells work, which may help male patients, but has little to no benefit for females. These remarkable findings are the result of a multidisciplinary study published in Nature […]
Month: November 2021
Research in mice shows how diet alters immune system function through a gut microbe — ScienceDaily
The cliché “you are what you eat” has been used for hundreds of years to illustrate the link between diet and health. Now, an international team of researchers has found the molecular proof of this concept, demonstrating how diet ultimately affects immunity through the gut microbiome. The work, conducted in […]
Research could lead to a wealth of drug targets — ScienceDaily
UT Southwestern and University of Washington researchers led an international team that used artificial intelligence (AI) and evolutionary analysis to produce 3D models of eukaryotic protein interactions. The study, published in Science, identified more than 100 probable protein complexes for the first time and provided structural models for more than […]
As we develop, the brain connects lessons learned differently — ScienceDaily
A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences — finding hidden connections between different experiences — changes dramatically as we age. The study’s findings might one day lead to personalized learning strategies based on a person’s cognitive and […]
Phase D for Fly Your Satellite! third-cycle kicks off with online workshop
Agency 09/11/2021 204 views 10 likes In brief Over 100 students from three teams of the third Fly Your Satellite! cycle – AcubeSAT (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), SOURCE (University of Stuttgart, Germany), and UCAnFly (University of Cádiz, Spain) – have successfully completed their Phase D workshop. Held between 18 […]
Team OSCAR-QUBE awarded the Hans von Muldau Team Award at IAC
Agency 09/11/2021 205 views 12 likes Back in September of this year, the OSCAR-QUBE team was celebrating a successful hardware integration into the ISS’s ICE Cubes facility by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. This was done in part of the ESA Education Office’s OYT! programme, in which the students must propose […]
LPS 2022 Climate Detectives School Award
Agency 11/11/2021 220 views 14 likes ESA is proud to announce the second edition of the LPS Climate Detectives School Award. The award is open to teams of students, from 12 to 15 years old, participating in the ESA Climate Detectives school project. Climate Detectives The Climate Detectives project challenges school […]
How does homeschooling affect adolescents’ character, health and well-being?
A young student working from home. Credit: Jessica Lewis, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Compared to peers at public schools, adolescents who are homeschooled are more likely to report greater character strengths and fewer risky health behaviors later in life, but are less likely to attain a college degree, according to a […]
Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better in exams
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Young people who consider themselves ‘multilingual’ tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research shows. The study, of more than 800 pupils in England, found a positive relationship between GCSE […]
Netflix’s Sex Education is doing sex education better than most schools
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Netflix’s comedy Sex Education, now in its third season, is set among a group of students and teachers at a British high school. In depicting sex education, it teaches viewers about sex and sexuality—often doing a better job than school-based sex ed classes. In the first […]
Finnish parents want assessment that supports and motivates learning
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In Finland, parents often regard assessment carried out in schools primarily as a tool for supporting pupils’ learning and growth. However, many parents would also like to see more of numerical assessment, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. The researchers analyzed the […]