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Personalized Learning: Tailoring Education to Every Student

Every parent believes their child is unique. And they are right. Every pupil has their own individual strengths and weaknesses, and their own particular way of…

Health & Medicine

Anti-Inflammatory Medications as Schizophrenia Treatment

What processes tip the balance between the ultra-high risk states and the development of schizophrenia? One candidate mechanism is cerebral inflammation,…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Birth Hypoxia: Mental Health Risks Explained

Complications during pregnancy and birth, such as birth hypoxia – the shortage of oxygen in the body – are associated with an increased risk for schizophrenia.

Life & Chemistry

Scientists unveil mechanism for ‘up and down’ in plants

They discovered how the needed transport protein turns up at the underside of plant cells. The discovery helps us to understand how plants grow, and how they…

Health & Medicine

Glutamate Hyperactivity: Rethinking Schizophrenia Insights

While the predominant hypothesis for many years was that schizophrenia was a glutamate deficit disorder, there is growing evidence of glutamate hyperactivity…

Physics & Astronomy

"Origins", a new Franco-Chinese International Associated Laboratory in Astrophysics

First and foremost, the “Origins” LIA will be devoted to extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology, in particular the formation and evolution of galaxies, dark…

Life & Chemistry

The 'Cheshire Cat' escape strategy in response to marine viruses

The researchers studied the impact of marine viruses on Emiliania huxleyi, one of the most abundant unicellular eukaryotes in oceans that significantly…

Health & Medicine

Green Neighborhoods: A Solution to Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity can lead to type 2 diabetes, asthma, hypertension, sleep apnea and emotional distress. Obese children and youth are likely to be obese as…

Health & Medicine

Meth Abuse Tied to Underage Sex, Smoking, and Drinking Risks

Research published today in the open access journal BMC Pediatrics reveals the risk factors associated with MA use, in both low-risk children (those who don’t…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Sea Ice Thinning: Trends and Impacts Revealed

Up until last winter, the thickness of Arctic sea ice showed a slow downward trend during the previous five winters, but after the summer 2007 record low…

Life & Chemistry

Cleaner Wrasse Pairs Enhance Coral Reef Service Cooperation

In an article in the latest number of the scientific magazine Nature researchers from Stockholm University have studied how certain fish on the coral reef keep…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Alien Fish Discovered in Swedish Waters: A Baltic Mystery

The species, which originates from the Black Sea and probably spread to the Baltic via ballast water, has been found in the Gulf of Gdansk since 1990, in the…

Event News

Explore Innovations at the 156th Acoustical Society Meeting

These are a few of the many questions that will be addressed at the 156th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) next month in Miami, FL. Convening…

Materials Sciences

High-Performance Steel Advances ITER Fusion Project

ITER is a multibillion-dollar international research and development project to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power and to…

Physics & Astronomy

Sea Urchin Reveals Secrets of Biomineralization Science

Used to crush food, for structural support and for defense, the materials of which shells, teeth and bones are composed are the strongest and most durable in…

Environmental Conservation

How Roads Impact Forest Elephants’ Safety and Survival

The authors of the study believe that these highly intelligent animals now associate roads with danger – in this case poaching, which is rampant in Central…

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