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Providing text-message tips to parents on how to make their children stronger readers can make a difference, but only if parents don't get too many or too few text messages, researchers find.
¿No logra conciliar el sueño? No se preocupe. Hacerlo demasiado podría empeorar su situación. Pero realizar cambios sencillos, como no usar dispositivos digitales antes de acostarse, ayudará.
Are you sleep deprived? Don't worry. That might make the situation worse. Instead, make some simple adjustments, such as staying off digital devices an hour before bedtime.
Many factors can influence people to evacuate or stay in place when disasters threaten. New research using Facebook posts suggests that people with broad social networks are more apt to move.
Growth mindset interventions work as well as many educational programs, at a fraction of the cost. And they are just in their infancy, says the Stanford researcher who developed mindset theory.
Last summer one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves calved an iceberg the size of Delaware – but scientists say other less dramatic changes reveal more about how and why Antarctica is changing.
Figuring out what causes diseases like autism, schizophrenia and depression is tricky. Now Stanford University researchers are turning blood into brain cells to study these diseases in a dish.
Researchers found stark differences in child mental health and infant mortality rates, depending on whether immigrant mothers were covered by inclusive policies or not.
While emergency drills may help schools feel safer, they contain underlying and often unintended moral messages about the nature of school and life itself.
Continental free trade area's potential impact includes boosting intra-Africa trade, manufacturing exports, job creation and poverty alleviation.
Using 'humanized mice,' researchers found more evidence that a widely used contraceptive may make women more susceptible to HIV infection.
Despite scientists' initial concerns, federal climate change data sets are still available. But other documents and web pages have changed over the last year.
Efforts to curb railroads' monopoly power in the 19th century hold lessons for 21st-century policymakers and internet giants alike.
The long-awaited $1.5 trillion plan fails to address some major obstacles to private investment.
The $1.5 trillion plan he's proposing would do the most for ventures that don't really need the government's help and ignores some major obstacles to private investment.
A new analysis shows how family background influences who grows up to invent. The key to turning things around? Expose kids to more inventors.
We asked four of our regular economics writers to examine a key theme they expect to flare up in 2018 and why.
After three years in which global carbon emissions scarcely rose, 2017 has seen them climb by 2%, as the long-anticipated peak in global emissions remains elusive.
Slaves were involved in medical experimentation in the 1700s – both as sources of knowledge and as nonconsenting participants.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
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Clinical Affiliate, Stanford University
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Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
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PhD Candidate, Global Projects Center, Stanford University
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PhD Student in Computer Science, Stanford University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University
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Director of Quantitative Research of the CORE-PACE Research Partnership, Stanford University
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Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
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Graduate Research Fellow of Sustainable Design and Construction, Stanford University
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Associate Professor of Pathology at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford University
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Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Center for African Studies, David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Global Economy and Development and Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Stanford University
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Professor of American History, Stanford University
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Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University
