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Students' Online and Offline Social Networks Can Predict Course Grades
December 27, 2012 — The information can be used to determine which students need the most help, as well as which ones excel and might be guided to further study or careers in that subject ... > full story -
94 Percent of High School Students Used Phones During Class, Israeli Study Finds
December 26, 2012 — A new study from Israel finds that 94 percent of high school students accessed social media on their phones during class over the past year, a new study ... > full story -
Physicists Take Photonic Topological Insulators to the Next Level
December 21, 2012 — Researchers have designed a simulation that for the first time emulates key properties of electronic topological insulators. Topological insulators, a state of matter that was only discovered in the ... > full story -
May the Force Be With the Atomic Probe
December 21, 2012 — A new models suggest devising means of probing a surface at a sub-micrometric level as this will help us understand how electrons' diffusion affects long-range attractive forces. Theoretical ... > full story -
Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds
December 20, 2012 — A new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will be born. The online experience, called Clouds, is a new addition to the Milky Way ... > full story -
New Target for Treating Prediabetes in Patients With Kidney Disease
December 20, 2012 — Insulin resistance, or prediabetes, in individuals with kidney disease may be caused by the progressive retention of certain compounds that are normally excreted by the kidneys in healthy ... > full story -
On-Demand Synaptic Electronics: Circuits That Learn and Forget
December 20, 2012 — Researchers in Japan and the US propose a nanoionic device with a range of neuromorphic and electrical multifunctions that may allow the fabrication of on-demand configurable circuits, analog ... > full story -
Is Tomorrow the End?
December 20, 2012 — End-of-the-world predictions are common in human history, but believers in the Mayan Doomsday claim don’t understand the Mayan calendar system, an anthropologist ... > full story -
Cardiovascular Disease: The Mechanics of Prosthetic Heart Valves
December 20, 2012 — Computer simulations of blood flow through mechanical heart valves could pave the way for more individualized ... > full story -
Dragonflies Have Human-Like 'Selective Attention'
December 20, 2012 — In a discovery that may prove important for cognitive science, our understanding of nature and applications for robot vision, researchers have found evidence that the dragonfly is capable of ... > full story
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