Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When the COVID-19 pandemic forced New Orleans public school teachers to switch from in-person instruction to a virtual or hybrid setting, the transition left many feeling anxious over their ability to impact student learning, according to a multi-agency study led by Tulane University. The study by […]
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Life Is Complicated–Literally, Astrobiologists Say
The hunt for extraterrestrial life has always been bedeviled by false positives—those occasions where scientists think they’ve found life but turn out to lack a wholly convincing case. The archetypal example comes from NASA’s twin Viking landers, which delivered controversial evidence of life on Mars in the mid-1970s. That evidence […]
Record-Breaking Exoplanet With Insanely Extreme Orbit Is Totally Doomed
A recently uncovered exoplanet is a person of the most severe found out nevertheless. Its title is TOI-2109b, an absolute beast of a fuel big clocking it at 1.35 moments the measurement and 5 times the mass of Jupiter. Oh, and it has a dying would like: It really is […]
One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long — ScienceDaily
The hunt for planets over and above our solar procedure has turned up much more than 4,000 much-flung worlds, orbiting stars 1000’s of light many years from Earth. These extrasolar planets are a veritable menagerie, from rocky super-Earths and miniature Neptunes to colossal gas giants. Among the the a lot […]
University students complete the 2nd ESEO In-Flight Experience Workshop
Agency 18/11/2021 110 views 11 likes Throughout several days they received lectures on the lessons learned and experiences gained throughout the ESEO spacecraft development and operations. These were offered by the engineers, project managers and payload experts involved in the mission, both from the universities, industry and ESA. During the […]
Are your kids keeping up at school?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain How a child learns is as individual as the child themselves. Yet with the pressures of large class sizes, decreases in school funding and, most recently, home-schooling, many teachers are struggling to keep track of their students’ performance. Now, world-first research from the University of South […]
COVID Can Cause Strange Eye and Ear Symptoms
Red eyes, ringing ears, sensitivity to light, trouble hearing: although a loss of taste and smell have become well-known sensory symptoms of COVID, accumulating research suggests that vision and hearing are also frequent targets of SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes the disease. More than 10 percent of people who get […]
Wildfires Are Spurring Wandering Tree Species to Move Faster, Study Finds
Plants and trees choose where to put down their roots based on the surrounding environment, and as the world’s climate shifts, trees and other vegetation are on the move: movements which are accelerated by the spread of wildfires, according to a new study. Both tree and animal species alike […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]