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For principals, not all stress is equal

Student discipline, staffing problems, frustrated parents—school principals spend their days moving from one problem to the next.

Brief phys.org · 5h ago
Digital textbooks significantly boost students' intrinsic learning motivation

A research team from The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) and East China Normal University (ECNU) has published a meta-analysis demonstrating the impact of digital textbooks (DTs) on student motivation. Synthesizing 27 experimental and quasi-experimental studies conducte

Brief phys.org · 2d ago
Natural proteins can guide active ingredients to diseased cells

After taking a pill, the drugs it contains are distributed throughout the body, reaching the tissues and cells affected by disease and performing their intended function. However, they also enter healthy cells, where they often cause more harm than good.

Brief phys.org · 3d ago
Pompeii's destruction helps calibrate volcanic dating to within decades

When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder—he provided enough detail about the date to allow scientists to benchmark methods for dating volcanic e

Brief phys.org · 3d ago
Students help researchers study how people experience temperature

Are there any geographical differences in how people experience weather conditions? This question was investigated in the citizen science project Kallt och svettigt (Cold and sweaty) for a year with the help of school pupils throughout Sweden.

Brief phys.org · 3d ago
Scientists discovered two bizarre new sea spiders that are “nightmare fuel”

Scientists discovered two strange new sea spider species in the Salish Sea, including a hairy-legged, red-eyed species that can groom itself with comb-like appendages. Another is frequently covered in tiny parasites, and researchers say many more undiscovered sea spiders may stil

Brief sciencedaily.com · 3d ago
Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest

Scientists have captured a subduction zone off Vancouver Island in the process of tearing itself apart, revealing that these massive tectonic systems may die piece by piece rather than all at once. The discovery could help explain ancient plate fragments, volcanic activity, and h

Brief sciencedaily.com · 3d ago

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Invasive marine species set to take advantage of rising seas

More than two-thirds of newly flooded coastlines worldwide could become suitable habitat for 122 non-native marine species—including Chinese mitten crabs, Pacific oysters and Asian tiger shrimp—by the middle and end of this century. The research, published in Nature Ecology & Evo

phys.org · 55m ago
Coast redwoods slow their 'breathing' and 'eating' when temperatures spike

California's iconic coast redwoods are used to growing in cool, coastal areas where the average temperature is around 59 degrees F (15 degrees Celsius). But as average yearly temperatures rise and heat waves push temperatures above 100 degrees F (38 degrees Celsius), the trees ar

phys.org · 2h ago

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