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Football team success throws fall grades of non-athletic college males for a loss

(PhysOrg.com) -- College football bowl season is in prime time, and a new report card is in: Male grades drop relative to female grades when their college football team performs well during the regular season.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Solar car Quantum to tour Michigan in the ultimate road test

The national champion solar car team will soon put its 2011 car and crew to the toughest test before the October World Solar Challenge. On Saturday, the University of Michigan team will embark on a 1,000-mile, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A 'genius' and his robots

It was lunch hour and hundreds of Dos Pueblos High School students surged onto the bleachers at the school's outdoor Greek Theater. The crowd was cheering, the music was thumping and a student-built robot named Penguinbot ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study shows universities may be failing to sufficiently teach basic research skills

(PhysOrg.com) -- Colleges and universities may be failing their students at a time when research skills and collaborative learning are becoming more and more important. In today's information-driven workplace, people spend ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Ordered planar polymers created for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists under the direction of ETH Zurich have created a minor sensation in synthetic chemistry. They succeeded for the first time in producing regularly ordered planar polymers that form ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Georgia Tech develops software for the rapid analysis of foodborne pathogens

2011 brought two of the deadliest bacterial outbreaks the world has seen during the last 25 years. The two epidemics accounted for more than 4,200 cases of infectious disease and 80 deaths. Software developed at Georgia Tech ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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NDSU nano research could impact flexible electronic devices

A discovery by a research team at NDSU and the National Institute of Standards and Technology shows the flexibility and durability of carbon nanotube films and coatings are intimately linked to their electronic properties. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Motivation to exercise affects behavior

(Medical Xpress) -- For many people, the motivation to exercise fluctuates from week to week, and these fluctuations predict whether they will be physically active, according to researchers at Penn State. In an effort to ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created 5 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'It's not nutritious until it's eaten'

As part of her "Let's Move! Initiative," First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled a new web resource highlighting new changes in the Chefs Move to Schools, during a CMST gathering in Dallas, TX today. CMTS advocates ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Big fish reveal shelter secrets on reefcam

When it comes to choosing a place to hang out, big reef fish like coral trout, snappers and sweetlips have strong architectural preferences.

Biology / Ecology

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China's pollution related to E-cars may be more harmful than gasoline cars, researchers find

Electric cars have been heralded as environmentally friendly, but findings from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers show that electric cars in China have an overall impact on pollution that could be more harmful ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created 3 hours ago | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Middle school teachers, students stay after school to work on science, engineering projects

The School of Education at Virginia Tech and the College of Education at University of Kentucky were awarded $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation to implement and evaluate an inquiry-based after-school ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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Neurobiologists identify animal model for a deadly human metabolic disorder

In medical research, finding a reliable and cost-effective animal model can greatly enhance success in identifying disease mechanisms and genetic pathways, potentially cutting years off drug testing regimes and development ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Starve a virus, feed a cure? Findings show how some cells protect themselves against HIV

A protein that protects some of our immune cells from the most common and virulent form of HIV works by starving the virus of the molecular building blocks that it needs to replicate, according to research published online ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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