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Whole-body learning can boost children's letter sound recognition—the first step towards reading
Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter…
Inaccurate global irrigation models can cause extensive societal harm
An international team of researchers from the University of Bergen and other leading institutions expose severe…
Strange radio burst raises new questions
Astronomers have found only the second example of a highly active, repeating fast radio burst (FRB)…
Unique insight into the inner workings of our cellular powerplants
Using advanced microscopy techniques, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University in Sweden have visualized in…
Genomics reveals that kelp is connecting Southern Pacific coastal communities
The DNA of kelp has enabled scientists to show just how interconnected coastal communities of the…
Most 'silent' genetic mutations are harmful, not neutral, a finding with broad implications
In the early 1960s, University of Michigan alumnus Marshall Nirenberg and a few other scientists deciphered…
Axial Higgs mode: Elusive particle discovered in a material through tabletop experiment
An interdisciplinary team led by Boston College physicists has discovered a new particle—or previously undetectable quantum…
Researchers pinpoint the end of 'cosmic dawn,' the epoch of reionization
A group of astronomers led by Sarah Bosman from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have…
How some high-energy particle 'jets' lose energy in the quark-gluon plasma
Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have revealed how certain particle-jets…