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Parent mentors can improve the asthmatic care of minority children, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that informed adults can help families stave off complications associated with asthma. The findings, available online and in the December issue of Pediatrics, suggest that i ...


An online community devoted to helping start-ups duel with venture capitalists is opening an institute

High-tech start-ups training academy to open

Technology / Internet

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An online community devoted to helping start-ups duel with venture capitalists is opening an institute to train technology entrepreneurs how to build top-notch businesses.


Gaining new insights into mentoring programs for adolescent girls

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study of a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America formal mentoring program, which matched adolescent girls with women mentors, revealed that strong emotional support and improvement in girls psychosocial functioning from these ...


Everyday Inventions Becoming Obsolete

US teens feel prepared for careers in science, tech, engineering, math, yet many lack mentors

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

American teens are embracing the subjects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with increasingly positive attitudes; yet many lack the necessary encouragement from mentors and role models ...





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City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...


Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Association for Women in Mathematics has named Hannah Alpert, a third-year mathematics major at the University of Chicago, a co-winner of the 2010 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics ...


Comcast's NBC talks cap its decades-long rise (AP)

Comcast's NBC talks cap its decades-long rise

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Ralph Roberts knew he was onto something big when people ran after his cable TV trucks in Tupelo, Miss., asking for a visit to their homes.


Inventing language

Inventing language

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award — frequently ...


Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'

Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many people have tried to read Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," whose publication celebrates its 150th anniversary this month, but gave up.


Benefit of a mentor: Disadvantaged teens twice as likely to attend college

Benefit of a mentor: Disadvantaged teens twice as likely to attend college

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adult mentors give teens a 50 percent greater likelihood of attending college.Mentorship by a teacher nearly doubles the odds of attending college for disadvantaged students.The students who need mentors the ...


Teaching the Teachers

Teaching the Teachers

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research experiences for science teachers can have a direct impact on the achievement of their students, increasing their performance significantly on state assessments. There are also economic ...


Cockroaches advance ASU student’s study of ancient life

Cockroaches advance ASU student’s study of ancient life

Biology / Other

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Have you ever seen a three-foot dragonfly? Where such gigantic insects once dominated earth, now only diminutive cousins remain. What created these differences? Elyse Munoz, a junior majoring in biology in ...


Insecticide-treated bed nets reduce infant deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated 414 infant deaths from malaria, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel ...


Microsoft interns get perks, pay, play

Technology / Business

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The same day Microsoft reported some of its worst financial results, a dozen buses left the Redmond campus. During rush hour, they headed toward Highway 520 as a phalanx of cops on motorcycles shut down the onramps ahead, ...



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