Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Although research data on the current school year is incomplete, a Virginia Tech child psychologist points to significant increases in anxiety, depression, irritability and aggression in children. “We have definitely seen a huge increase in referrals for assessments for academic and social-emotional concerns in children and […]
Month: November 2021
Tool helps find the best balance of good grades and well-being
Credit: Shutterstock For students, as for all of us, life is a matter of balance, trade-offs and compromise. Studying for hours on end is unlikely to lead to best academic results. And it could have negative impacts on young people’s physical, mental and social well-being. Our recent study found the […]
Panorama CEO on Measuring College, Career, and Life Readiness (Opinion)
Aaron Feuer is co-founder and CEO of Panorama Education, a Boston-based education and technology company whose college- and career-readiness tools, school climate surveys, and social-emotional learning assessments are currently used each year to support the success of more than 10 million students in 11,500 schools. Joining a passion for education […]
Genes Reveal How Some Rockfish Live Up to 200 Years
Few groups of animals encapsulate the extremes of longevity more than fish. While coral reef pygmy govies survive for less than ten weeks, Greenland sharks can endure more than 500 years. So when a team of biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, wanted to explore the genetics of aging, […]
New Mineral Discovered in Deep-Earth Diamond
A diamond that formed deep in the earth’s mantle contains a mineral never seen before in nature. The discovery is a rare glimpse into the deep mantle and may help reveal new information about the structure of the planet at depths of more than 660 kilometers. This, in turn, can […]
How Immunocompromised People Without Strong Vaccine Protection Are Coping with COVID
George Franklin obtained a kidney transplant 46 decades back. Now age 67, he is amongst the longest lived kidney transplant recipients. But during the pandemic, he has not been capable to interact in numerous of the routines he ordinarily enjoys—bowling, swimming or just going to pals and neighbors. Like most […]
How Scientists Could Tell The World if They Find Alien Life
Rather shortly, some distinguished astrobiologists say, we will most likely have both found persuasive evidence for extraterrestrial lifetime or banished its feasible existence to the at any time shrinking edges of the cosmos beyond the quickly growing get to of our observations. These types of answers could come by the […]
How an Award-Winning Illustrator Weaves Emotion into Science
Lots of watch the scientific procedure as a device to preclude human feelings from influencing the lookup for reality. But those people thoughts are essential when it will come time to support men and women link to the science, or so indicates award-profitable illustrator and visible artist Fatinha Ramos. The […]
How COVID Might Sow Chaos in the Brain
“Brain fog” is not a official clinical descriptor. But it aptly describes an lack of ability to feel clearly that can change up in multiple sclerosis, cancer or continual tiredness. Lately, the ailment has grabbed headlines because of experiences that it afflicts those recovering from COVID-19. COVID’s brain-related indications go […]
We May Finally Understand Why These Gargantuan Mollusks Got So Huge
During the late Cretaceous, close to 80 million decades back, monsters roamed the Earth. Not just the tyrannosaurs and titanosaurs. Even more compact animals could be tremendous-sized. It was all through this time that the dimension of a style of marine mollusk peaked, with the most significant species of ammonite […]
Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Significantly Higher Risk of Severe COVID-19
Most persons with COVID do not end up in healthcare facility, but some teams get a quite intense form of the condition. As early as the initial wave, it was obvious that minority ethnic groups in the United kingdom were a lot more very likely to die of COVID as […]