Gaming hours tied to positive, negative outcomes
How much do you play video games? A little does a lot of good, but too much might be associated with behavioral or social problems.
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On climate change, teachers’ beliefs matter
Students think like their teachers about the science of climate change but don't always follow their teachers about its human causes.
Drive or converse? Brain does one thing at a time
If you're have a conversation, your brain shifts resources to hearing centers and pays less attention to the visual cortex.
Identifying renewable output anywhere on Earth
University researchers have developed a tool that can predict savings from renewable energy resources anywhere. What would it be near your school?
Farming can, and must, adapt to climate change
Climate is warmer, so some farming practices have changed, noticed in one study in Western Africa, but it could move closer to home.
Shallow M 5.6 earthquake strikes Oklahoma
An earthquake struck near Pawnee, Okla., this morning. Some structural damage. Officials blame wells that dispose of wastewater from fracking.
Hard to predict storm paths due to climate change
Forecasting the path of storms in temperate latitudes is becoming increasingly difficult due to climate change, U of Chicago researchers say.
Hogan orders more summer, gets an earful
For math students, it's a calendar problem to schedule 180 school days between Labor Day and June 15. Is it possible mathematically?
Revolutionary fabric from Stanford cools like A/C
Air conditioning is needed to keep us cool, but could a new fabric, developed at Stanford, cool us as efficiently?
Grade 5 Common Core math: Joshua’s garden
A garden has to be measured, and that requires some skill with fractions, as Joshua and a family in California find out.