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Parents take a year to 'tune in' to their child's feelings about starting school, research suggests
A team of psychologists led by the University of Cambridge have found that it takes parents about a year, on average, to ...
Engineers advance toward a fault-tolerant quantum computer
In the future, quantum computers could rapidly simulate new materials or help scientists develop faster machine‐learning ...
Blood droplets on inclined surfaces reveal new cracking patterns
Drying droplets have fascinated scientists for decades. From water to coffee to paint, these everyday fluids leave behind ...
Zoo life boosts object exploration in orangutans, study finds
A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans ...
Slickrock: Geoscientists explore why Utah's Wasatch Fault is vulnerable to earthquakes
About 240 miles long, Utah's Wasatch Fault stretches along the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains from southern Idaho to ...
Marker ink transforms into graphene-based electric circuit for low-cost sensors
The first case of an electric circuit created using a simple marker and a laser beam shows that simple and sustainable ...
Thawing permafrost dots Siberia with rash of mounds
In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the ...
Giant croc-like carnivore fossils found in the Caribbean
Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, ...
Why aren't South Africans growing more indigenous crops? How farmers can be nudged to change their ways
Western diets make up most of South Africa's food systems. This displaces indigenous crops and edible forest plants.
Palatable versus poisonous: Scientists reveal how bats learn to identify which prey is safe to eat
Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog ...
Smartphone apps claim to assess hot weather threats. But are they accurate?
A recent study from the University of Georgia published in GeoHealth found a smartphone application designed to assess ...
What excluded children think about their education in alternative provision—and why it matters
Nearly 16,000 children in England learn in state-funded alternative provision (AP). These are educational settings for school ...