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September 16, 2022 - Some researchers say that ignoring non-English papers could have disastrous consequences for conservation
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View as a gridLanguage barriers in conservation research could be hurting biodiversity efforts. What can be don...
Broken Horizon: UK medical research struggling with funding and collaborations gap after Brexit
British Medical Journal
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After Brexit, visa requirements, customs regulations, and the loss of EU research funding have heavily impacted medical and health researchers in the UK. Eva Amsen reports One of the biggest effects of Brexit has been exclusion of the UK (including Northern Ireland) from the Horizon Europe funding, to which the country would have contributed approximately £2bn a year.
Using a Board Game to Plan for a Changing Planet | Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine
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For one Māori community, a board game sparked serious discussions about flood risk.
The neuroscience behind playful learning
BOLD
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There is plenty of evidence to show that children learn while playing. But how, exactly, does play affect learning? To gain a better understanding of the neuroscience behind playful learning, we can look at what happens in the brains of two people when they play together.
Remote education inspires new ways to teach chemistry lab courses
Chemical & Engineering News
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When the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile sent students home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fernán Federici needed to find a new way to teach his biochemistry lab course. Using open-source equipment, which anyone can reproduce and use, he created a lab box filled with tools to allow students to do experiments at home.
George Washington Carver Was An Artist Long Before He Became A Peanut Scientist
Forbes
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George Washington Carver wasn't just a peanut scientist, but a skilled artist as well. One of his paintings was even shown at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. And in 2024, a new exhibit will highlight how his science and art careers intersected.
Science and Culture: Researchers embrace fashion to show off science concepts
PNAS
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When fashion designers, retailers, and families attend Vancouver Kids Fashion Week, they expect to see models donning the latest in children's fashion. But at an event last October, attendees saw scientists as well. Researchers from Michael Kobor's lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, had set up a booth to showcase some of the model organisms they study.
Communicating science at a music festival - with 135,000 attendees
Nature
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In February 2017, Helen Currie joined a team of researchers on a tour of UK festivals to share the impact of her research with people outside her field. Currie studies how sound affects migratory-fish behaviour, and is in the fourth year of a doctoral programme at the University of Southampton, UK.
High School Students Do Better In Science, Math And English If They Also Take Music Lessons
Forbes
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Schools are under constant pressure to make budget cuts, and music programs are often first on the chopping block. Now, an extensive study from the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that students who took music lessons in high school performed better in subjects such as English, science, and math.
Genetic Medicine Is Poised to Create New Inequality. Here's How to Fix It.
UNDARK
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A few years ago, a team of researchers found something peculiar in the patient files of the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine at Partners HealthCare in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Between 2005 and 2007, seven patients who were being treated for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - a sometimes severe condition that can lead to heart failure - were told, incorrectly, that their disease was hereditary and therefore might affect their relatives as well.
Glacier Lessons as a Glacier Lessens | Hakai Magazine
Hakai Magazine
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In the south of Iceland, just inland from the main ring road that circles the country, sits the Sólheimajökull glacier-a mass of ice that stands stark against the black volcanic landscape. Several hundred meters away from the base of the glacier's tongue, at the far end of the meltwater lake is a modest and unofficial-looking sign: jöklamælingar it reads in handwritten letters-glacier measurements.
Can songs help students learn?
bold.expert
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Can the use of songs in school foster students’ learning? In 2018, Ulm University researchers Janina Lehmann and Tina Seufert published a study in Frontiers in Psychology that suggests that music may indeed have a place in the classroom.
How We Got From Doc Brown to Walter White - Issue 43: Heroes - Nautilus
Nautilus
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At the start of the fourth season of Breaking Bad, Walter White angrily watches an inexperienced meth cook make his trademark blue meth. Walter is afraid that mob boss Gus Fring is going to kill him, so he desperately explains that Fring can't make the "product" without him.
Wildlife education with Pokémon Go
bold.expert
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Augmented reality games like Pokémon Go involve the real world in the gameplay. This can make popular games a great jumping-off point to make players aware of their own local environment, and ultimately, this attention for the world around them may outlive the game itself.
Life After Sequencing
The Scientist
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Fifteen years after publication of the human genome’s first draft sequence, what has become of the hundreds of researchers who worked on the project?
Whatever Happened to Francis Crick?
Popular Science
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When Francis Crick died in 2004, my first reaction was surprise that he had lived to that point. To me, Crick was part of history. His claims to fame dated all the way back to 1953: his and James Watson's discovery of DNA's structure and their controversial use of Rosalind Franklin's X-ray image of the DNA helix without permission.