US teachers harbor climate change misconceptions
US science teachers have some of the same misconceptions about climate change as the general public, and they need more support.
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Better to teach genetics before evolution
Getting students to understand a tough concept like evolution could be better if you teach them the fundamentals of genetics first.
Continued brain training can help concussion victims
Learning about the brain after traumatic brain injury can help with the long-term recovery process; how the training works is a mystery.
Kids exposed to traffic pollution show DNA damage
Doctors may one day be able to model the cell-level effects of exposure to traffic-related air pollution using telomere length in our cells.
Elementary academics better with vision screening
If elementary students get good vision screenings, some research suggests they may experience better academic outcomes.
High school should start later than 7:30
Evidence is overwhelming that teens need to sleep to a comfortable time, which makes starting high school before 8:30 problematic.
Gene-editing tool shows promise for vision disorder
CRISPR may allow researchers to deactivate a master switch gene in DNA to prevent the worsening of a blindness-causing condition
Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is 200 years old
Pollution, resulting in high nitrogen levels in the Chesapeake Bay estuary in Maryland, did not start building after World War II but about a hundred years earlier.
Jupiter in opposition today. Wow!
The world's beauty is joined by extraterrestrial beauty, and since Jupiter is now closer to Earth than it has been in a year, NASA took some pics.
Breakthrough might save the Great Barrier Reef
Starfish feed on coral & can wipe out big sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. But scientists are figuring out ways to solve that.