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Online Learning: It's Different
April 4, 2013 Researchers have found that, by interspersing online lectures with short tests, student mind wandering decreased by 50 percent, note-taking tripled and overall retention of the material ... > full story -
Largest Class Survey Reveals Polarized UK Society and the Rise of New Groups
April 3, 2013 The largest survey of the British class system ever carried out has revealed a new structure of seven social divisions, ranging from an "advantaged and privileged" elite to a large "precariat" of ... > full story -
HIV Self-Testing: The Key to Controlling the Global Epidemic
April 2, 2013 A new international study has confirmed that self-testing for HIV is effective and could be the answer to controlling the global epidemic. This systematic review shows HIV self-testing removes much ... > full story -
Access to Mental Health Care Lacking for Children, Teens Across the U.S.
April 2, 2013 A new national U.S. survey shows adults who work and volunteer with children and teens do not believe youth have appropriate access to mental health ... > full story -
Dangers of Surveillance: It's Bad, but Why?
April 1, 2013 Surveillance is everywhere, from street corner cameras to the subject of books and movies. “We talk a lot about why surveillance is bad, but we don’t really know why,” says Neil ... > full story -
New Mathematical Model Shows How Society Becomes Polarized
April 1, 2013 Engineering researchers have devised a mathematical model that helps demonstrate what's behind the growing rift in American ... > full story -
Biological Transistor Enables Computing Within Living Cells
March 28, 2013 Bioengineers have taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. Scientists have used a biological transistor made from genetic material -- DNA and RNA -- in place ... > full story -
Study Explores Gang Activity on the Internet
March 26, 2013 Gangs are not using the Internet to recruit new members or commit complex cybercrimes, according to a new ... > full story -
Personal Monitor System Could Change Healthcare
March 25, 2013 A wireless personal health monitoring system using smartphones to upload data via the Internet will revolutionize the U.S. healthcare industry, its pioneering creators ... > full story -
New Lung Cancer Study Takes Page from Google's Playbook
March 25, 2013 A new study shows that the same sort of mathematical model that Google uses to predict which websites people want to visit may help researchers predict how lung cancer spreads through the human ... > full story
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