Education
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‘A Cruel Choice’: Why Israel Targets Palestinian Schools | Ramzy Baroud
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Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 23, 2018 Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded Oct. 15 in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Na ...
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A warmer climate will also be a drier climate, with negative impacts on forest growth | Peter B. Reich
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Warmer temperatures brought on by climate change will lead to drier soils and reduce tree photosynthesis and growth in forests later this century, ...
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The early universe was a fluid quark-gluon plasma | You Zhou
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Fig. 1 An event from the first Xenon-Xenon collision at the Large Hadron Collider at the top energy of the Large Hadron Collider (5.44 TeV ) registered by ALICE . Every colored track (The blue lines) ...
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New extremely distant solar system object found during hunt for Planet X | Scott Sheppard, Chad Trujillo and David Tholen
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The orbits of the new extreme dwarf planet 2015 TG387 and its fellow Inner Oort Cloud objects 2012 VP113 and Sedna as compared with the rest of the Solar System. 2015 TG387 was nicknamed 'The Goblin' ...
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2018 Nobel Medicine Prize awarded for cancer research | Johnson, Pollard, Dickson, Vaish and Ringstrom
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An illustration of James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo provided by the Nobel Assembly. Photograph: Nobel Assembly Oct. 1, 2018 -- STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -- American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo ...
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Schoolyard tree cover predicts math performance in high-poverty urban schools | Ming Kuo
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Students in low-income, high-poverty Chicago schools had better test scores when there were more trees in the schoolyard, according to a new study by Ming Kuo of the University of Illinois. Credit: M ...
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Unhealthy lifestyle responsible for 45,000 predicted cases of bowel cancer in next decade | Claire M Vajdic
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 25, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- A large proportion of bowel cancers in Australia are preventable by adopting a healthy lifestyle -- particularly for men, a new study shows ...
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Mindfulness meditation: 10 minutes a day improves cognitive function | Peter Malinowski
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Photo credit: Sebastien Wiertz. Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Sept. 19, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Practicing mindfulness meditation for 10 minutes a day improves concentration and the ability to keep information ...
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The ghosts of high school lessons past | Mickey Z.
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Photo: Ghosts Of Rivera High School Brownsville, Texas Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 6, 2018 My family moved to a slightly “better” area of our neighborhood shortly before I turned 15. There we ...
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Small fish passes classic self-awareness test | Bob Yirka
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Credit: Flickr/Mr. T in DC Sept. 4, 2018 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found a small tropical fish that is capable of passing a classic test of self-awareness. The results ar ...
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Quantum weirdness in 'chicken or egg' paradox | Jacqui Romero
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Sept. 3, 2018 (Phys.org) -- The "chicken or egg" paradox was first proposed by philosophers in Ancient Greece to describe the problem of determining cause-and-effect. Now, a team of physicists from T ...
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