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Afghan girls are barred from attending school after sixth grade. AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi

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Afghanistan shows what investing in women’s education – or divesting – can do to an economy

Staff Writer - January 5, 2025

The private tutoring market has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

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How effective is tutoring in the United States? – 4 essential reads

Dark comets accelerate through space but don’t have a dusty tail like most comets. Adina Feinstein and NASA’s Earth Observatory

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2 populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell researchers where the Earth got its oceans

Unfurling fiddlehead of the Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides). Jacob S. Suissa, CC BY-ND

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Ferns’ ability to evolve ‘backward’ offers insights into the meandering path of evolution

Quincy Jones conducts an orchestra in Rome in May 2004. Frank Micelotta/Getty Images

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Why Quincy Jones should be prominently featured in US music education − his absence reflects how racial segregation still shapes American classrooms

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To fight Zika, let’s genetically modify mosquitoes – the old-fashioned way

Staff Writer - April 29, 2016

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Has the library outlived its usefulness in the age of Internet?...

Staff Writer - April 28, 2016

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Why stories matter for children’s learning

Staff Writer - January 5, 2016

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2015, the year that was: environment and energy

Staff Writer - December 28, 2015

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2015, the year that was: science and technology

Staff Writer - December 28, 2015

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Rarity of Jupiter-like planets means…

Staff Writer - December 11, 2015

Education

Forget about designer babies – gene editing won’t work on complex...

Staff Writer - December 4, 2015

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EXPLORING NATURE

Environment

3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can...

Staff Writer - December 23, 2024

Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through...

The giant panda’s diet is almost 100% bamboo. Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...

December 22, 2024

Dark comets accelerate through space but don’t have a dusty tail like most comets. Adina Feinstein and NASA’s Earth Observatory

2 populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell...

December 22, 2024

A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Octopuses and their relatives are a new animal welfare frontier −...

December 21, 2024

Animals with long lifespans tend to reproduce extremely slowly. Els Vermeulen

Whales can live way longer than scientists had thought, with potential...

December 20, 2024