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Ivory tower needs to adapt to online media landscape, scholar says

Universities need to embrace new online media, social networks and a culture of "openness" as part of their pedagogy, or they risk becoming seen as anachronisms in today's hyper-connected world where information ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Low levels of amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields elicit therapeutic responses cancer patients

Ryne Ramaker, a senior UALR Donaghey Scholar and University Science Scholar with a double major in biology and chemistry, is a co-author of a cancer research paper creating excitement among other researchers. The article ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Solastalgia's growing influence is 'bittersweet' success

If you enter ‘solastalgia’ into a Google search, the staggering number and range of results illustrates just how widely the influence of Professor Glenn Albrecht’s concept has spread. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created 10 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The question of life in the ancient world

There’s a general feeling that we don’t get the Greeks – ancient or modern. Many, including heads of state like Angela Merkel, visibly shake their head in exasperation, rightly or wrongly, at ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Putting lab life under the lens

Scott Stern doesn’t work in a laboratory or have a degree in the hard sciences. You’ll never find him using a genome sequencer or an MRI scanner. Yet he knows more about some aspects of science than ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fall of Communism changed mathematics in US: New study

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those scholars' differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

MtDNA tests trace all modern horses back to single ancestor 140,000 years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years archeologists and other scientists have debated the origins of the domesticated horse. Nailing down a time frame is important because many historians view the relationship between ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

NSABB and H5N1 redactions: Biosecurity runs up against scientific endeavor

In response to recent actions of the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), which recommended that two scientific journals withhold crucial details in upcoming reports about experiments with a novel ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Iowa State engineer wants to 'sculpt' more powerful electric motors and generators

Dionysios Aliprantis took up an imaginary hammer and chisel and pounded away at the air.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Voltaire's English alter-ego unmasked by new letters

14 newly-discovered letters by Francois Voltaire have allowed an Oxford University team to shed light on his brief but important time in England.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Notre Dame psychologist developing new math learning strategies

What do children know about mathematics before they start learning it in school? How do external factors like language, education and culture affect children’s understanding? What is the best way to structure ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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