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Credit: UW I-LABS Knowledge of multiple languages has long been shown to have lifelong benefits, from enhancing communication skills to boosting professional opportunities to staving off the cognitive effects of aging. When researchers…

New ACM open publishing model promises to accelerate ACM's transition to full open accessCredit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open access agreements with several of its largest…

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientistsCredit: Alexander Klimczak The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and…

Fine-grained data surface new insights into gender disparities at universities Over her lifetime, the average female scientific researcher at a New Zealand university earns about NZ$400,000 less than her male counterparts, and less than…

Children with mental health needs require urgent support from primary school onwards to avoid exclusion, which can be both cause and effect of poor mental health, new research concludes. The research, led by the University of Exeter,…

Ferris founded CerviCusco, a nonprofit organization dedicated to cervical cancer prevention in Cusco, PeruCredit: Daron Ferris PHILADELPHIA, PA (January 22, 2020) - Daron G. Ferris, MD, the Founder of CerviCusco, will receive the 2020 Penn…

A first-of-its-kind study of over 200,000 Instagram posts showed that positive vaping hashtags are used 10,000 times more often than an FDA awareness campaign hashtag, highlighting limited impacts to address the growing use of vaping among…

Credit: Virginia Tech For decades, there's been a widespread assumption among people with an interest in sports-related injury that youth football players are more vulnerable to concussion and other head injuries than their older, bigger…

University professors from New York and California designed and developed three digital games - available online and in the iOS and Google Play app stores - to help its users' brains work more efficiently. While some digital games falsely…

Six social and behavioral scientists were recently awarded the 2019 Impact in Action Writing Prize for their submissions detailing how their research makes a valuable difference beyond academia. Four submissions received the top prize from…