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Articles Want to Be a More Productive Worker? Research Says Stay Home Are you a telecommuter? If you've got a quiet, private place to work, you're probably more efficient.Dave Burdick08 Sep, 2012
Articles What Causes Phantom Smartphone Buzzing? You know the feeling—you think your phone is buzzing in your pocket, you go to see what’s up, and there’s nothing there. Why does it happen?Sammy Roth11 Jul, 2012
Articles An Underwater Lab for Forecasting the Ocean's Future Researchers created an underwater lab-in-a-box near the Great Barrier Reef, allowing them to tinker with ocean water in its natural state.Sammy Roth16 Jun, 2012
Articles Navy Scientists Develop Underwater Solar Panels Navy research scientists have developed a solar panel that works underwater. And that's good news because there aren't wall sockets down there.Sammy Roth15 Jun, 2012
Articles Can Storytelling Keep Kids Hooked on Science? Researchers believe giving students an emotional connection to the subject through characters and plot twists will keep them engaged.Liz Dwyer21 Aug, 2011
Articles NASA Creates Awesome iPad App for Science Education The new "Visualization Explorer" app takes NASA's trove of satellite data and brings it to life in a free app.Liz Dwyer31 Jul, 2011
Articles Are Schools on the Verge of a Mobile-Phone Revolution? Over 75 percent of teens own cell phones, making them the perfect tool for learning—if teachers are on board with using them.Liz Dwyer24 Jul, 2011
Articles What's the Key to Ending the Math and Science Teacher Shortage? The real problem isn't recruiting teachers. It's keeping them in the classroom.Shawn Cornally11 Jul, 2011
Articles Dead Wrong: Is Your War Protest Actually Increasing Support for the War? New research says complaining about money and lives lost in our wars might be a terrible way to try and end them.Cord Jefferson07 Jul, 2011
Articles Brain Drain: How Our Thirst for Academic Talent Hurts the Rest of the World While a top international scholar is teaching in the States, who's educating college students back in that professor's homeland?Liz Dwyer23 Jun, 2011
Articles Education Reform? Student Activists Are Doing It Themselves While debates about education policy rage on in Washington, D.C. many students are taking matters into their own hands.Liz Dwyer03 Jun, 2011
Articles Study: Politicians Likelier to Engage with Voters of Their Race New research from Yale finds that all politicians privilege "their own" when it comes to constituent engagement.Cord Jefferson12 May, 2011
Articles Studies Support Rewards, Homework, and Traditional Teaching—Or Do They? It's smart to be skeptical of education studies that seem to support traditional practices.Alfie Kohn09 Apr, 2011
Articles Study: Going to Church Makes You Fat (UPDATED) Scientists knew there was a correlation between religious involvement and obesity, but this new study proves the relationship is causal.Nicola Twilley27 Mar, 2011
Articles Study: Cutting Jobless Benefits Sees People Look for Work Less, Not More The GOP should read this before trying to kill unemployment insurance extensions.Cord Jefferson23 Mar, 2011