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Children contribute to group projects when there are clear and common goals

Researchers identify basic approaches for how people recognize words

Communication helps parent relationships with new college students but has limits

Children's behavioral problems are linked to higher hair cortisol levels

Variety is the spice of learning, memory study suggests

How are pronouns processed in the memory-region of our brain?

New insights into intellectual disability genetics emerge

Non-cognitive skills: The hidden key to academic success

Why children can't pay attention to the task at hand

Belief in academic ability key factor in academic success for low-income students

Play it forward: Lasting effects of pretend play in early childhood

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One in two children with ADHD experience emotional problems

Self-critical perfectionism gnaws on students' well-being already in lower secondary school

Intervention based on science of reading, math boosts comprehension, word problem-solving skills

What motivates preschoolers to prepare for the future

School suspensions and exclusions put vulnerable children at risk

Computer game in school made students better at detecting fake news

Everyday social interactions predict language development in infants

Is it the school, or the students?

2 in 3 parents say their adolescent or teen worries about how sick days may impact grades

Teacher effectiveness for students with and without disabilities

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Young children who are close to their parents are more likely to grow up kind, helpful and 'prosocial'

Language recognition is as much about brains as it is about hearing

In the age of ChatGPT, what's it like to be accused of cheating?

Intellectual disability more common in families with substance use disorder

Active children are more resilient

Lengthy screen time associated with childhood development delays

Surprising study results: Students are bored during exams

Bilingualism as a catalyst for social development in children

Reading for pleasure early in childhood linked to better cognitive performance and mental wellbeing in adolescence

How caregiver speech shapes infant brain

More structure, fewer screens makes for healthier kids in the school holidays

Researcher combats bullying of students with disabilities

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What constitutes teacher expertise? New research points to the answer

Real or fake text? We can learn to spot the difference

Nightly sleep is key to student success

New research suggests peer-advisor relationship is key to success

Music education benefits youth wellbeing

How your mood affects the way you process language

How moms are taking the lead in shaping children's education

Daily, consistent parental reading in the first year of life improves infants' language scores

Children use the same brain network as adults for tough problems

Can children map read at the age of four?

Can a computer teach babies to count?

A sense of purpose may have significant impact on teens' emotional well-being

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A new learning method could help people with autism improve visual perception capabilities

A new take on the 'marshmallow test': When it comes to resisting temptation, a child's cultural upbringing matters

Brain scans reveal the hidden shape of thinking and predict students' learning better than test scores

How mother-youth emotional climate helps adolescents cope with stress

How does nature nurture the brain?

How sleep builds relational memory

Just being exposed to new things makes people 'ready to learn

New insights on infant word learning

New model for predicting belief change

New research helps explain how Ritalin sharpens attention

Online teaching triggers a different response in the body

Using smartphones could help improve memory skills

When more is more: Identifying cognitive impairments with multiple drawing tasks

Why thinking hard makes you tired?

Can 'random noise' unlock our learning potential?

'Rhythm' or 'drift' -- new tools can help better understand human attention

Augmented reality could be the future of paper books

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Digital Solutions in Educators’ Training

  Robots help some sick children ‘attend’ school. Kids are working with scientists to make them better 

COVID-19 patients face higher risk of brain fog and depression, even 1 year after infection

Here’s what we know about COVID-19’s impact on the brain 

‘A pretty big deal’: U.S. makes COVID-19 technologies available for use in developing countries 

An mRNA vaccine with a twist—it copies itself—protects against COVID-19

Pandemic propels global effort to study rare vaccine side effects 

New generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form

World’s nations start to hammer out first global treaty on plastic pollution 

To fight climate change, a biotech firm has genetically engineered a very peppy poplar

Climate change is killing off soil organisms critical for some of Earth’s ecosystems 

Do nature reserves work? It depends on the management

Ukraine’s mounting death toll includes a growing number of researchers 

Computers ace IQ tests but still make dumb mistakes. Can different tests help? 

Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims 

Lowly mushrooms may be key to ecosystem survival in a warming world 

Scientists turn tomatoes into a rich source for vitamin D

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Nonsense words make people around the world think of the same shapes

Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive

Edison was right: Waking up right after drifting off to sleep can boost creativity

Ancient Greeks didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world

New lava-like coating can stop fires in their tracks

Simple test could predict dangerous blood pressure in pregnant women

Next-generation spinal implants help people with severe paralysis walk, cycle, and swim

Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study

U.S. science no longer leads the world. Here’s how top advisers say the nation should respond

mRNA gives hope for heart disease cure

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When is ‘self-plagiarism' OK? New guidelines offer researchers rules for recycling text

Journal impact factor gets a sibling that adjusts for scientific field

Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway

Landmark research integrity survey finds questionable practices are surprisingly common

When Plastics are  Precious

The Plastic Eaters

Can immune responses alone reveal which COVID-19 vaccines work best?

COVID-19 affects men and women differently. So why don't clinical trials report gender data?

The overlooked superpower of mRNA vaccines

New ‘mirror' fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C

Brain signals converted into words ‘speak' for person with paralysis

Your sweaty fingertips could help power the next generation of wearable electronics

Sunlight affects whether languages have a word for ‘blue’

Popular songs spread like epidemics

Identical twins carry genetic modifications no one else has

Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds

Zhengzhou subway flooding a warning for other major cities

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‘Hybrid’ scientific conferences aim to offer the best of in-person and virtual meetings

Unreliable social science research gets more attention than solid studies

Fifteen journals to outsource peer-review decisions Middle Eastern countries ramp up their scientific publications

Are advertisers coming for your dreams?

Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings

Vaccines that can protect against many coronaviruses could prevent another pandemic

Mixing COVID-19 vaccines appears to boost immune responses

New Google effort uses cellphones to detect earthquakes

‘It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit.’ Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl

No shared language? No problem! People across cultures understand clues from ‘vocal charades’

Paralyzed person types at record speed—by imagining handwriting

A psychedelic drug may help treat PTSD. But questions remain on how best to use—and regulate—it

Alzheimer’s drug approved despite doubts about effectiveness

Dolphins learn the ‘names’ of their friends to form teams—a first in animal kingdom

Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?

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Bidirectional associations between COVID-19 and psychiatric disorder

When should you end a conversation?

The $450 question: Should journals pay peer reviewers?

Academia is often a family business. That’s a barrier for increasing diversity

Scientists use ‘x-ray vision’ to read a letter sealed in 1697

Butterflies are vanishing in the western U.S.—but not for the reasons scientists thought

What is research misconduct? European countries can’t agree

‘On the verge of a breakdown.’ Report highlights women academics’ pandemic challenges

Europe moves to exclude neighbors from its quantum and space research

Researchers race to develop antiviral weapons to fight the pandemic coronavirus

Hey buddy! Your cellphone addiction is causing a pedestrian traffic jam

Major coronavirus variant found in pets for first time

Food supplements that alter gut bacteria could ‘cure’ malnutrition

Glass molded like plastic could usher in new era of complex glass shapes

Top German psychologist fabricated data, investigation finds

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Who needs a teacher? Artificial intelligence designs lesson plans for itself

You’ve tweeted about your hot new paper! Don’t expect many clicks

Should you mix and match COVID-19 vaccines? 

World’s largest COVID-19 drug trial identifies second compound that cuts risk of death

In Biblical times, purple was the new black

Pandemic hit academic mothers especially hard, new data confirm

Watch—and hear—the impact human noises have on marine life

Largest ever research integrity survey flounders as universities refuse to cooperate

Major nutrition study aims to learn which diet best suits your genes and gut

Scientists ‘program’ living bacteria to store data

A new mandate highlights costs, benefits of making all scientific articles free to read

Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test

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This new algorithm can find the hidden patterns in your dreams

Gene therapy for autism-linked condition weakened legs, robbing two people of ability to walk

How democracies are now ‘backsliding’ in countries from Russia to the United States

It’s not just cars that make pollution. It’s the roads they drive on, too

New PLOS pricing test could signal end of scientists paying to publish free papers

Humans are born with brains 'prewired' to see words

Quality over quantity in recovering language after stroke

Why are there differing preferences for suffixes and prefixes across languages?

Children use both brain hemispheres to understand language, unlike adults

Children use make-believe aggression and violence to manage bad-tempered peers

Helping youth diagnosed with early stages of psychosis

Busy pictures hinder reading ability in children

Heavy electronic media use in late childhood linked to lower academic performance

Why COVID-19 is more deadly in people with obesity—even if they’re young

New drool-based tests are replacing the dreaded coronavirus nasal swab

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Aiming ultrasound at the brain raises hope of new treatments

Blood test could identify early stage Alzheimer’s disease

‘Disturbing and cruel.’ Universities blast new visa rule for international students

United States drops visa restriction on foreign students attending remote classes

‘Ethically troubling.’ University reopening plans put professors, students on edge

Seawater could provide nearly unlimited amounts of critical battery material

From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break into cubes

Two new medicines may curb serious respiratory disease in infants

Radical shift in COVID-19 testing needed to reopen schools and businesses, researchers say

Designer antibodies could battle COVID-19 before vaccines arrive

Why pregnant women face special risks from COVID-19

Why flu vaccines don’t protect people for long

AI invents new ‘recipes’ for potential COVID-19 drugs

How will COVID-19 affect the coming flu season?

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Scientists have turned the structure of the coronavirus into music

Artificial intelligence systems aim to sniff out signs of COVID-19 outbreaks

How Sweden wasted a ‘rare opportunity’ to study coronavirus in schools

T cells found in COVID-19 patients ‘bode well’ for long-term immunity

Scientists use lidar to map a forgotten Nazi concentration camp off the coast of France

GPS on the Moon? It can work

Meet the psychologist exploring unconscious bias—and its tragic consequences for society

Do preprints improve with peer review? 

Herpes virus can trigger Alzheimer’s, brain tissue study suggests

New solar panels suck water from air to cool themselves down

Lab-evolved algae could protect coral reefs

Tropical forests soak up huge amounts of greenhouse gas. Climate change could end that

These bacteria have adapted to life in your nose—and that may be good news

Earth’s species disappearing at an alarming rate

Eye, robot: Artificial intelligence dramatically improves accuracy of classic eye exam

Like humans, these big-brained birds may owe their smarts to long childhoods

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 Should schools reopen?

Children of the pandemic

As COVID-19 forces conferences online, scientists discover upsides of virtual format

Why don’t some coronavirus patients sense their alarmingly low oxygen levels?

Antimalarials widely used against COVID-19 heighten risk of cardiac arrest

Crushing coronavirus means ‘breaking the habits of a lifetime

Social scientists scramble to study pandemic, in real time

Autistic voices should be heard 

Could mass screening benefit kids at high risk of diabetes?

Experimental schizophrenia drug could reduce long-neglected symptoms

Rethinking anorexia: Biology may be more important than culture, new studies reveal

Artificial intelligence is evolving all by itself

Artificial intelligence takes on song-composing duties in Eurovision-inspired contest

Researchers find new, promising antibiotic with help from AI

Chance discovery brings quantum computing using standard microchips a step closer

New drugs aim to disarm the immune system’s ‘atomic bomb’ cells

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How AI and Data Could Personalize Higher Education

The Revolutionary Impact Of Immersive Technology On Education

How AI is transforming education and skills development

Human body temperature has declined steadily over the past 160 years

What does traditional music around the world have in common

The dead speak! Scientists re-create voice of 3000-year-old mummy

California has begun screening for early childhood trauma, but critics urge caution

Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here’s What Experts Say

How Gamification is Reshaping Social Collaboration

Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds

What happens to our online lives after we die?

What we don’t know about wildfire smoke is likely hurting us

From ‘living’ cement to medicine-delivering biofilms, biologists remake the material world

Researchers find new, promising antibiotic with help from AI

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Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

Open-access megajournals lose momentum as the publishing model matures

Articles in ‘predatory' journals receive few or no citations

New deals could help scientific societies survive open access

Artificial intelligence could predict El Niño up to 18 months in advance

AI can scramble your face to shield you from recognition programs

AI allows paralyzed person to ‘handwrite’ with his mind

From Edible Shot Glasses to Biodegradable Plastics

Hormone secreted by bones may help us escape danger

Scientists hope to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria by targeting their ‘alarm proteins’

What is love? It depends which language you speak

Move by journals to ‘seamless’ off-campus access raises privacy concerns

Alzheimer’s experts greet China’s surprise approval of a drug for brain disease with hope and caution

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Cheer up! Optimists live longer

Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes

This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

New solar technology could produce clean drinking water for millions in need

Aviation’s dirty secret

Trees share water to keep this dying stump alive

The rise of a deadly superfungus may be tied to global warming

Medical journal editors expect authors to disclose conflicts of interest—but don’t disclose their own

Geography of loss—a global look at the uneven toll of suicide

‘Dark pools’ of hate flourish online

An hour or two of outdoor learning every week increases teachers' job satisfaction

How expectation influences perception

How the Internet may be changing the brain

Forecasters fear 5G wireless technology will muck up weather predictions

Just one season of playing football—even without a concussion—can cause brain damage

Artificial intelligence predicts which movies will succeed—and fail—simply from plot summaries

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Philosophers and neuroscientists join forces to see whether science can solve the mystery of free will

New neurons for life? Old people can still make fresh brain cells, study finds

Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here’s What Experts Say

U.S. judge rules deceptive publisher should pay $50 million in damages

New surgical method promises to take the knife out of plastic surgery

These origami robots could one day deliver drugs inside your body

Sodium batteries are one step closer to saving you from a mobile phone fire

How long do vaccines last? The surprising answers may help protect people longer

These ocean floats can hear earthquakes, revealing mysterious structures deep inside Earth

Cheap, portable scanners could transform brain imaging

Scientists teach computers fear—to make them better drivers

To meet the ‘Plan S’ open-access mandate, journals mull setting papers free at publication

‘Wood wide web’—the underground network of microbes that connects trees—mapped for first time

New research centre aims to increase immunization by fighting anti-vaccine misinformation

Our apps are an extension of our personalities

Subjective Well-Being Decreasing With Age

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What Dictionary.com's words of the year say about us 

The northern and southern lights are different. Here’s why

Diet pills make mosquitoes skip meals, potentially reducing the spread of disease

A report about Plan S’s potential effects on journals marks a busy week for the open-access movement

New pill shows early promise for blocking many strains of flu

Rain is melting Greenland’s ice, even in winter, raising fears about sea level rise

Does a ‘dark triad’ of personality traits make you more successful?

Brain differences in ADHD

First genetic map of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Movement impairments in autism could be reversible

Meta-analysis highlights important challenges in cognitive processing for adults with ASD

More than just memories: A new role for the hippocampus during learning

Babies who hear two languages at home develop advantages in attention

Multitasking increases in online courses compared to face-toface

Sociologists study the impact religion has on child development

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Traffic may be making your allergies worse

Scientists uncover massive, diverse ecosystem deep beneath Earth’s surface

Immune system ‘negotiations’ stop mom’s body from attacking her fetus

How many live mosquitoes can fit into a syringe? 240

Brain stimulation could let some blind people ‘see’ shapes made of light

CRISPR bombshell: Chinese researcher claims to have created gene-edited twins

Climate change poses major threat to United States, new government report concludes

In biblical city of Armageddon, signs of early vanilla and elaborate medical care

Artificial intelligence helps predict volcanic eruptions

Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers?

Will a radical open-access proposal catch on, and quantifying the most deadly period of the Holocaust

Once considered outlandish, the idea that plants help their relatives is taking root

Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech

‘Megalibraries’ of nanomaterials could speed clean energy and other grand challenge targets

‘Nanoscavengers’ could protect people from sarin gas, other nerve agents

Listen to this piano-playing robot hit all the right notes

Discovery of recent Antarctic ice sheet collapse raises fears of a new global flood

Dolphins discovered ‘timesharing’ the sea for the first time

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Five Dead Sea Scroll fragments at the Museum of the Bible are fakes

What a massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing’s ‘death penalty’

Virtual reality could show others what autism feels like—and lead to potential treatments

The average person can recognize 5000 faces

How 30 days with an in-home robot could help children with autism

‘Generous’ approach to replication confirms many high-profile social science findings

Mysterious new brain cell found in people

Making the right connections

Insufficient sleep associated with risky behavior in teens 

How the appendix could hold the keys to Parkinson’s disease, and materials scientists mimic nature

Three paralyzed people walk after nerve stimulation

A revolutionary treatment for allergies to peanuts and other foods is going mainstream—but do the benefits outweigh the risks?

An elusive molecule that sparks multiple sclerosis may have been found

SCIENTISTS CONNECT THREE PEOPLE'S MINDS SO THEY CAN COMMUNICATE USING BRAINWAVES ALONE

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Artificial intelligence can predict how you’ll look decades from now

Seafloor cables that carry the world’s internet traffic can also detect earthquakes

Can science-based video games help kids with autism?

Male scientists are far more likely to be referred to by their last names, impacting status and awards

Hundreds of new genes may underlie intelligence—but also autism and depression

Synapse-specific plasticity governs the identity of overlapping memory traces

Miles Davis is not Mozart: The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently

Firm that tallies controversial journal impact scores moves to provide more context

New ‘light-eating’ protein discovered in the Sea of Galilee

This chip can quickly identify the microbes living in your body

Why some people get dizzy when hearing certain sounds 

Are these dots purple or blue? Your answer might not be as reliable as you think

How stimulant treatments for ADHD work

Link found between resilience to dyslexia and gray matter in the frontal brain

Scientists ID more than 1,200 genes linked to educational attainment

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A first look at the earliest decisions that shape a human embryo

Brain's window for language learning open until adulthood

How minority viewpoints become majority ones

How success breeds success in the sciences

Making grad school work for STEM students

Smarter brains run on sparsely connected neurons

New parts of the brain become active after students learn physics

What’s really behind ‘gluten sensitivity

Tourism is four times worse for the planet than previously believed

Posttraumatic stress affects academics

The secret to honing kids' language and literacy

Social media posts may signal whether a protest will become violent

Gauging language proficiency through eye movement

Why some people resist authority

Brains of young people with severe behavioral problems are 'wired differently'

Here's How Much Caffeine You Need, and When, for Peak Alertness

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Attention deficit disorders could stem from impaired brain coordination

False News Spreads Faster and Wider

Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn

New blood test useful to detect people at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

Older adults grow just as many new brain cells as young people

The hidden side to your personality

The secret world of babies

When kids' autistic brains can't calm down

Israel develops pocket-size device to test for heart attacks

Could artificial intelligence get depressed and have hallucinations?

Want to sound like someone people can trust? This new software could help

Dying for the group: What motivates the ultimate sacrifice?

South Korean university’s AI work for defense contractor draws boycott

Which education systems are best? Look past the superficial numbers

A tiny sensor on your tooth could help keep you healthy

Meet Your Interstitium, A Newfound 'Organ'

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Nearly 100 scientists spent 2 months on Google Docs to redefine the p-value. Here’s what they came up with

The world’s largest set of brain scans are helping reveal the workings of the mind and how diseases ravage the brain

Tell your boss: When U.S. workers stay home, they save 2 billion billion joules per year

Two psychologists followed 1000 New Zealanders for decades. Here’s what they found about how childhood shapes later life

Online tool calculates reproducibility scores of PubMed papers

Watch this wearable electronic skin control virtual objects

You could soon be manufacturing your own drugs—thanks to 3D printing

'Liquid biopsy' promises early detection for cancer

Artificial intelligence can ‘evolve’ to solve problems

This ‘mind-reading’ algorithm can decode the pictures in your head

Alzheimer’s protein may spread like an infection, human brain scans suggest

Make replication studies ‘a normal and essential part of science,’ Dutch science academy says

Out-of-sync brain waves may explain why we get forgetful as we age

Being bilingual may help autistic children, says new study

Pregnancy really does cause 'baby brain', new research finds 

Study Reveals How The Creative Brain Is Wired