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Credit: Photo Courtesy of Marcus Huerta (San Antonio, June 25, 2019) -- Working with local architecture firm Ford, Powell & Carson and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, the UTSA Center for Cultural Sustainability (CCS) will…

Credit: DROG An online game in which people play the role of propaganda producers to help them identify real world disinformation has been shown to increase "psychological resistance" to fake news, according to a study of 15,000…

Nationwide physics teacher preparation network recognizes outstanding physics teachers across the country COLLEGE PARK, MD, June 24, 2019 -- The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) PhysTEC Teacher of the Year award is designed to…

An international group of scientists is making major advances in sustaining the world's environments, untangling the intricate ways in which people and nature depend on each other. The results are published in today's Nature…

Credit: Water tower at Olcott Beach, NY, by Ad Meskens; image was modified by Joshua S. Cetron and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. As students learn a new concept, measuring how well…

Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University It is the third year in a row that PolyU research teams snatched the awards in the world's largest multi-sector event for fostering development and commercialisation of innovations. The two…

A once understudied topic now shows a clear link between cannabis use and brain alterations, whereby chronic use may lead to poor conflict resolution skillsCredit: Elsevier Washington, DC, June 20, 2019- The development of neural…

The hub builds data science partnerships to address societal challenges The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub has been awarded a four year, $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue its work in building…

Researchers at CDDEP, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, RTI International, and Harvard assessed the long-term associations of measles vaccination and child anthropometry, cognition, and schooling outcomes in Ethiopia, India, and…

Credit: COLLEGE STATION -- Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, TEES, were recently awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture…