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			<title>Why some kids struggle with math even when they try hard</title>
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			<description>A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number comparison tasks. Brain imaging showed weaker activity in regions that help monitor errors and guide behavioral changes. These brain patterns could predict which children were more likely to struggle.</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:50:20 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Medieval miracles: Dragon-slaying saints once healed the land</title>
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			<description>New research reveals a forgotten side of medieval Christianity—one rooted not in cathedrals, but in fields, forests, and farms. Historian Dr. Krisztina Ilko uncovers how the Augustinian order built its power through “green” miracles: restoring barren land, healing livestock, reviving fruit trees, and taming deadly landscapes once blamed on dragons. Far from symbolic tales, these acts helped rural communities survive and gave the order legitimacy at a time when its very existence was under threat.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:36:55 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>War has pushed Gaza’s children to the brink – “like the living dead”</title>
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			<description>A new study warns that war in Gaza has pushed children to the edge, leaving many too hungry, weak, or traumatized to learn. Education has nearly collapsed, with years of schooling lost to conflict, hunger, and fear. Researchers say children are losing faith in the future and in basic ideas like peace and human rights. Without urgent aid, Gaza faces the risk of a lost generation.</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:45:42 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Nearly all women in STEM secretly feel like impostors</title>
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			<description>Nearly all women in STEM graduate programs report feeling like impostors, despite strong evidence of success. This mindset leads many to dismiss their achievements as luck and fear being “found out.” Research links impostorism to worse mental health, higher burnout, and increased thoughts of dropping out. Supportive environments and shifting beliefs about intelligence may help break the cycle.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:01:59 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>This 100-year-old teaching method is beating modern preschools</title>
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			<description>A first-of-its-kind national trial shows that public Montessori preschool students enter kindergarten with stronger reading, memory, and executive function skills than their peers. These gains don’t fade — they grow over time, bucking a long-standing trend in early education research. Even better, Montessori programs cost about $13,000 less per child than traditional preschool. The results suggest a powerful, affordable model hiding in plain sight.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 07:40:43 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>AI supercharges scientific output while quality slips</title>
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			<description>AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a first language, potentially shifting global centers of research power. But there’s a downside: many AI-polished papers fail to deliver real scientific value. This growing gap between slick writing and meaningful results is complicating peer review, funding decisions, and research oversight.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:53:28 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Science says we’ve been nurturing “gifted” kids all wrong</title>
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			<description>A major international review has upended long-held ideas about how top performers are made. By analyzing nearly 35,000 elite achievers across science, music, chess, and sports, researchers found that early stars rarely become adult superstars. Most world-class performers developed slowly and explored multiple fields before specializing. The message is clear: talent grows through variety, not narrow focus.</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:05:31 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Kids’ anxiety and depression dropped fast after COVID school reopenings</title>
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			<description>Researchers discovered that children who went back to school during COVID experienced far fewer mental health diagnoses than those who stayed remote. Anxiety, depression, and ADHD all declined as in-person learning resumed. Healthcare spending tied to these conditions also dropped. Girls showed the largest improvements, highlighting the importance of school-based structure and support.</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:28:15 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Rising temperatures are slowing early childhood development</title>
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			<description>Researchers discovered that unusually high temperatures can hinder early childhood development. Children living in hotter conditions were less likely to reach key learning milestones, especially in reading and basic math skills. Those facing economic hardship or limited resources were hit the hardest. The study underscores how climate change may shape children’s learning long before they reach school age.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:59:03 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Millions are about to choose the wrong Medicare plan</title>
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			<description>Millions face Medicare decisions each year, but many don’t take advantage of tools that can save them money and stress. Insurance marketing often overshadows unbiased options like SHIP, leaving people unaware of better choices. Comparing real costs—not just premiums—can prevent unpleasant surprises, especially when provider networks or drug rules change. New assistance programs for low-income adults offer valuable help for 2026.</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 07:22:46 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>A backwards Bible map that changed the world</title>
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			<description>Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the map reshaped the Bible into a Renaissance book and spread new ideas about territorial organization as literacy expanded. Over time, sacred geography evolved into political boundary-making, influencing not only early modern thought but modern attitudes about nation-states.</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:01:30 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Scholars say most of what we believe about Vikings is wrong</title>
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			<description>Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these stories to reflect their own worldviews, from romantic heroism to dangerous nationalist myths. Pop culture and neo-paganism continue to amplify selective versions of this past. Scholars today are unraveling how these shifting visions emerged and how they influence identity and culture.</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 03:34:17 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ancient tides may have sparked humanity’s first urban civilization</title>
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			<description>New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas cut off the Gulf’s tides, they faced crisis and reinvented their society. This interplay of environment and culture shaped Sumer’s myths, politics, and innovations, marking the dawn of civilization.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:38:09 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>How gaslighting tricks the brain into questioning reality</title>
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			<description>Gaslighting, often seen as a form of manipulation, has now been reframed by researchers at McGill University and the University of Toronto as a learning process rooted in how our brains handle prediction and surprise. Instead of merely being explained through outdated psychodynamic theories, this new model highlights how trust and close relationships can be exploited by manipulators who repeatedly undermine a person’s confidence in their own reality.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:27:26 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Shocking study exposes widespread math research fraud</title>
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			<description>A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study highlights shocking distortions—such as a university without a math department ranked as having the most top mathematicians—and the explosion of megajournals willing to publish anything for a fee.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:19:22 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Why so many young kids with ADHD are getting the wrong treatment</title>
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			<description>Preschoolers with ADHD are often given medication right after diagnosis, against medical guidelines that recommend starting with behavioral therapy. Limited access to therapy and physician pressures drive early prescribing, despite risks and reduced effectiveness in young children.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:10:52 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>AI exposes 1,000+ fake science journals</title>
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			<description>Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have unveiled an AI-powered system designed to expose predatory scientific journals—those that trick scientists into paying for publication without proper peer review. By analyzing journal websites for red flags like fake editorial boards, excessive self-citation, and sloppy errors, the AI flagged over 1,400 suspicious titles out of 15,200.</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:34:41 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>9 in 10 Australian Teachers Are Stressed to Breaking Point</title>
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			<description>Australian teachers are in crisis, with 9 in 10 experiencing severe stress and nearly 70% saying their workload is unmanageable. A major UNSW Sydney study found teachers suffer depression, anxiety, and stress at rates three to four times higher than the national average, largely driven by excessive administrative tasks. These mental health struggles are pushing many to consider leaving the profession, worsening the teacher shortage.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:08:13 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Guardrails, education urged to protect adolescent AI users</title>
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			<description>The effects of artificial intelligence on adolescents are nuanced and complex, according to a new report that calls on developers to prioritize features that protect young people from exploitation, manipulation and the erosion of real-world relationships.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:12:08 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Brain drain? More like brain gain: How high-skilled emigration boosts global prosperity</title>
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			<description>As the US national debate intensifies around immigration, a new study is challenging conventional wisdom about &#039;brain drain&#039;--the idea that when skilled workers emigrate from developing countries, their home economies suffer.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 18:31:59 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Overimitation begins in infancy but is not yet linked to in-group preference</title>
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			<description>A new study examines the emergence of overimitation in infants aged between 16 and 21 months to see if and how it is linked to social affiliation and other forms of imitation. The researchers found that young children engaged in low rates of overimitation and that it was not driven by in-group preference -- meaning they were not acting to please someone similar to themselves. This suggests that overimitation for social affiliation reasons may emerge later. But they did find that other types of imitation associated with memory and cognition were closely correlated.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 16:25:44 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>AI is here to stay, let students embrace the technology, experts urge</title>
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			<description>A new study says students appear to be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) responsibly, and as a way to speed up tasks, not just boost their grades.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 13:35:13 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>School dinners may encourage picky teenagers to eat better, says new study</title>
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			<description>Having school dinners rather than packed lunches could encourage picky eating 13-year-olds to eat a wider variety of foods, according to a new study.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 19:11:35 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Learning as an adventure: The lecture theater in the spaceship</title>
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			<description>In Project Chimera, a game lab combines a VR computer game with educational problems in order to convey scientific content in a motivating way.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 13:25:10 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>The key to spotting dyslexia early could be AI-powered handwriting analysis</title>
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			<description>A new study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as an early detection tool for dyslexia and dysgraphia among young children.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 15:17:12 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Losing a parent may increase children&#039;s risk of being bullied</title>
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			<description>A new study surveyed 21,000 children in China and found that the association between parental bereavement and school bullying varied by sex of the child and deceased parent, age when the death occurred, and geographical area. Adolescents in rural areas, girls, and older youth (ages 13-17) were at higher risk of bullying after either parent died.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 13:05:08 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Children as young as five can navigate a &#039;tiny town&#039;</title>
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			<description>Neuroscientists are developing methods to map the brain systems that allow us to recognize and get around our world.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 17:06:44 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250505121754.htm</link>
			<description>Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional development -- yielding similar results to studies in wealthier nations, finds a new analysis.</description>
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			<title>Our ability to recognize objects depends on prior experience</title>
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			<description>New findings suggest neurons have much more functional dexterity than scientists previously realized.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 10:27:17 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>STEM students: Work hard, but don&#039;t compare yourself to others</title>
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			<description>A new study shows how damaging it can be for college students in introductory STEM classes to compare how hard they work to the extent of effort put in by their peers.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 12:22:34 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Essay challenge: ChatGPT vs students</title>
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			<description>Researchers have been putting ChatGPT essays to the test against real students. A new study reveals that the AI generated essays don&#039;t yet live up to the efforts of real students. While the AI essays were found to be impressively coherent and grammatically sound, they fell short in one crucial area -- they lacked a personal touch. It is hoped that the findings could help educators spot cheating in schools, colleges and universities worldwide by recognizing machine-generated essays.</description>
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			<description>Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children&#039;s abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different techniques, and the conclusion was that children who are trained with pencil and paper assimilate new letters and words better.</description>
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			<description>New research finds that tropical cyclones reduce years of schooling for children in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in areas unaccustomed to frequent storms. Girls are disproportionately affected.</description>
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			<description>For the first time, researchers can study the microstructures inside metals, ceramics and rocks with X-rays in a standard laboratory without needing to travel to a particle accelerator, according to engineers.</description>
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			<description>Scientists aren&#039;t comedians, but it turns out a joke or two can go a long way. That&#039;s according to a new study that found when researchers use humor in their communication -- particularly online -- audiences are more likely to find them trustworthy and credible.</description>
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			<title>Global survey highlights the challenges of VR-haptic technology in dental education</title>
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			<description>A recent global survey of 156 institutions reveals strong interest in VR-haptic technology for dental training, yet significant barriers impede widespread adoption.</description>
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			<description>Mind blanking is a common experience with a wide variety of definitions ranging from feeling &#039;drowsy&#039; to &#039;a complete absence of conscious awareness.&#039; Neuroscientists and philosophers compile what we know about mind blanking, including insights from their own work observing people&#039;s brain activity.</description>
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			<title>By 15 months, infants begin to learn new words for objects, even those they&#039;ve never seen</title>
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			<description>A new study by developmental scientists offers the first evidence that infants as young as 15 months can identify an object they have learned about from listening to language -- even if the object remains hidden.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:40:51 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Using ChatGPT, students might pass a course, but with a cost</title>
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			<description>With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers set out to learn how well the free version of ChatGPT would compare with human students in a semester-long undergraduate control systems course.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:20:18 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Adolescents who sleep longer perform better at cognitive tasks</title>
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			<description>Adolescents who sleep for longer -- and from an earlier bedtime -- than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers have shown. But the study of adolescents in the US also showed that even those with better sleeping habits were not reaching the amount of sleep recommended for their age group.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:12:16 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Temporary anxiety impacts learning</title>
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			<description>Researchers found that a brief episode of anxiety may have a bigger influence on a person&#039;s ability to learn what is safe and what is not. A new study used a virtual reality game that involved picking flowers with bees in some of the blossoms that would &#039;sting&#039; the participant, simulated by a mild electrical stimulation on the hand. Researchers discovered that temporary feelings of anxiety had the biggest impact on whether participants could learn to distinguish between the safe and dangerous areas, where the bees were and were not, not a person&#039;s general tendency to feel anxious.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:12:03 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Novel treatment approach for language disorder shows promise</title>
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			<description>Neuroscientists have developed a new treatment approach for a language disorder that combines traditional speech therapy with noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation helped induce neuroplasticity, the brain&#039;s capacity to continue to reorganize and learn.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:11:21 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Study shows addressing working memory can help students with math difficulty improve word problem-solving skills</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250421163119.htm</link>
			<description>Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, assess its role in word-problem solving and if interventions could boost it and thereby improve their word problem solving skills. Results showed that improving working memory helped both students with and without math difficulties and can help educators more effectively by helping teach the science of math, study authors argue.</description>
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			<title>Father&#039;s mental health can impact children for years</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250419211922.htm</link>
			<description>Five-year-olds exposed to paternal depression are more likely to have behavioral issues in grade school, researchers find.</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:19:22 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>The brain learns to filter out distracting stimuli over time</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250415143511.htm</link>
			<description>The human brain can learn through experience to filter out disturbing and distracting stimuli -- such as a glaring roadside billboard or a flashing banner on the internet. Scientists have used electroencephalography (EEG) to show that early visual processing in humans changes with repeated exposure.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:35:11 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>New study finds surprising way to curb college-aged drinking harms -- without cutting alcohol</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250414162216.htm</link>
			<description>Researchers have developed and tested an intervention called Counter-Attitudinal Advocacy and compared it to to the well-established Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF) to evaluate their effectiveness in decreasing drinks per week, peak blood alcohol concentration and alcohol-related consequences relative to a control group.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:22:16 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>School-based asthma therapy improves student health, lowers medical costs</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250411110050.htm</link>
			<description>Millions of U.S. children have asthma and benefit from taking anti-inflammatory medications at least once a day as prescribed by their health care provider. This school-based asthma therapy program enables school nurses to help students take their medications on schedule. A study has found that it can save thousands of dollars per student in medical costs. Participating students are healthier because they have fewer asthma-related emergencies that require a trip to the emergency department, hospital or health care provider&#039;s office.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:00:50 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Unsafe driving during school drop offs at &#039;unacceptable&#039; levels</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250410130920.htm</link>
			<description>Risky driving by parents and other motorists who do the school run is putting children in danger, according to a new study.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:09:20 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>AI threats in software development revealed</title>
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			<description>Researchers completed one of the most comprehensive studies to date on the risks of using AI models to develop software. In a paper, they demonstrate how a specific type of error could pose a serious threat to programmers that use AI to help write code.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:09:30 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Early education impacts teenage behavior</title>
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			<description>Researchers explored the long-term effects of preschool expansion in Japan in the 1960s, revealing significant reductions in risky behaviors amongst teenagers. By analyzing regional differences in the rollout of the program, the study identified links between early childhood education and lower rates of juvenile violent arrests and teenage pregnancy. The findings suggest that improved noncognitive skills played a key role in mitigating risky behaviors, highlighting the lasting benefits of early-education policies.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:21:18 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Childhood experiences shape the brain&#039;s white matter with cognitive effects seen years later</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250407172930.htm</link>
			<description>Investigators have linked difficult early life experiences with reduced quality and quantity of the white matter communication highways throughout the adolescent brain. This reduced connectivity is also associated with lower performance on cognitive tasks.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:29:30 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Does teamwork fulfill the goal of project-based learning?</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250407114405.htm</link>
			<description>A researcher investigated the impact of the group work environment on motivation in English as a second language classes. The study revealed that the group work environment plays an important role in motivating students.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:44:05 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Fear of rejection influences how children conform to peers</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250404122432.htm</link>
			<description>The fear of rejection -- familiar to many children and adults -- can significantly impact how kids behave in their peer groups, according to new research.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:24:32 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Common phrases, not fancy words, make you sound more fluent in a foreign language</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250403122822.htm</link>
			<description>Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more fluent than those who rely on rare, complex words. The study highlights the importance of mastering familiar phrases to improve fluency perception, suggesting that learners should naturally incorporate common formulaic expressions in spontaneous speech.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:28:22 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Science &#039;storytelling&#039; urgently needed amid climate and biodiversity crisis</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250402123035.htm</link>
			<description>Scientists should experiment with creative ways of communicating their work to inspire action to protect the natural world, researchers say.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:30:35 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Classroom talk plays a key part in the teaching of writing</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250327164538.htm</link>
			<description>The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in the teaching of writing, a new study shows.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:45:38 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>We must not ignore eugenics in our genetics curriculum, says professor</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250327141421.htm</link>
			<description>To encourage scientists to speak up when people misuse science to serve political agendas, biology professor Mark Peifer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that eugenics should be included in college genetics curriculums.</description>
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			<title>A hit of dopamine tells baby birds when their song practice is paying off</title>
			<link>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250325191424.htm</link>
			<description>By watching the ebb and flow of the brain&#039;s chemical signals, researchers are beginning to disentangle the molecular mechanisms underlying the intrinsic motivation to learn. In a new study of zebra finches, researchers show that a hit a dopamine tells baby birds when their song practice is paying off. The findings suggest that dopamine acts like an internal &#039;compass&#039; to steer their learning when external incentives are absent.</description>
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			<description>Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research.</description>
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			<description>Scientists investigated whether email interventions informed by behavioral science could help teachers help students learn math.</description>
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