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A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare chiton found nearly three miles beneath the ocean surface sparked a global naming effort, drawing more than 8,000 suggestions from…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Feb. 7, 2025. The mission returned the Falcon to flight after an upper stage issue.
When Kristina Brecko arrived at Stanford University in the fall of 2012 to start her Ph.D., she was already scanning the weather forecast—not for rainfall, but for snow. An avid snowboarder, she and her graduate study advisor, Wesley Hartmann, a…
A recent paper examines how emotional intelligence functions as a critical skill in education settings and as a leadership capability in modern organizations, particularly amid rising workplace strain, complexity, and change. The research is authored by Chanell Russell, a research…
“There was no such thing as reproductive freedom for poor women in early modern Catholic Europe,” states a recent article in the Journal of Modern History. The work examines several facets of “reproductive unfreedom” in the early modern period: namely,…
When university students get to create real value for others, their motivation, self-confidence, and academic performance increase. This is shown by a new study published in The International Journal of Management Education that examines how university teachers use value creation…
Students with disabilities account for almost 15% of the K-12 student population in the United States. Yet they are often underrepresented in charter schools, which are publicly funded schools open to all students. While there are discussions about what type…
With a world literally and figuratively burning around them, high school social studies teachers are charged with engaging students in sensitive topics.
Most public debate about schooling focuses on what happens inside the classroom—on lessons, tests and academic results.
New research suggests the astringent sensation caused by flavanols could act as a direct signal to the brain, triggering effects similar to a mild workout for the nervous system. In mouse experiments, flavanol intake boosted activity, curiosity, learning, and memory—despite…