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RIT faculty earns award to study how to help more students become scientists, engineers
(Rochester Institute of Technology) Assistant Professor Ben Zwickl has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to explore how lab-based, project-based and work-based learning environments can teach sophisticated problem-solving skills...
The <em>Other</em> Reasons People Don't Get Vaccines
When it comes to the flu, refusal often has nothing to do with the fear of autism-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Kids store 1.5 megabytes of information to master their native language
(University of California - Berkeley) Learning one's native language may seem effortless. But new research from UC Berkeley suggests that language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition, rather than something humans a...
$6.1 million in grants pave way for TGen-led studies of deadly lung diseases
(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, has received a total of $6.1 million in two grants - a $3.5 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Heal...
Signs of 1906 earthquake revealed in mapping of offshore northern San Andreas Fault
(Seismological Society of America) A new high-resolution map of a poorly known section of the northern San Andreas Fault reveals signs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and may hold some clues as to how the fault could rupture in the future, acco...
GOP Counteroffer to Green New Deal Pushes Innovation
Senator Lamar Alexander’s proposal would beef up funding for energy research and carbon capture-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Big Data Can Help Save the World
Emerging analytic and computing tools are enabling much better use of huge data sets-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
3 Myths (and 1 Truth) About Grain-Fed Beef
There’s a lot to consider when deciding what kind of meat to buy—or even whether to eat meat at all. The least we can do is start with accurate information-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Step it up: Does running cadence matter? Not as much as previously thought
(University of Michigan) Contrary to long-standing popular belief, running at a prescribed, one-size-fits-all "optimal" cadence doesn't play as big a role in speed and efficiency as once thought.
Eating small amounts of red and processed meats may increase risk of death
(Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center) A new study out of Loma Linda University Health suggests that eating red and processed meats -- even in small amounts -- may increase the risk of death from all causes, especially cardiovascula...