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College students with children have slightly higher GPAs but often take a longer time to graduate and are more likely to drop out of school.
Demonstrating for parents how to talk with their babies and toddlers can improve kids’ vocabulary and math skills, new research finds.
The ability to store information is central to learning and the field of artificial intelligence. Researchers have shown how a unique material shows basic learning properties similar to that of slugs.
People who struggle with numbers are also likely to struggle in life, new research shows.
Keeping biomedical data private is important, but so is sharing it for research. Game theory can help researchers accomplish both.
The molecule C1q has both protective and detrimental effects after traumatic brain injury. Blocking it after injury in mice restored normal brain rhythms during sleep and prevented epileptic spikes.
These photos tend to oversimplify the issues that cause poverty and the suffering of poor people in low-income countries.
When staff members learn how to acknowledge and talk about their social differences, nonprofits can get better at developing strategies, forming alliances and mobilizing people, a recent study found.
New research shows people experience the ‘endowment effect’ of valuing an object more when they can touch it, even in virtual settings.
This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Little comprehensive research about what the charitable accounts, known as DAFs, are supporting has been conducted until now.
Students from low-income backgrounds fare better when they are able to take career and technical classes in STEM, new research shows.
With limited vaccines available in early 2021, the CDC had to decide which people received vaccines first. With the help of a supercomputer, researchers have shown that the CDC did an excellent job.
The study found that ticks were unable to feed on guinea pigs vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine, preventing transmission of the pathogen that causes Lyme disease.
Regulatory loopholes for research conducted off US soil allow for questionable trials and misleading data to slip under the FDA’s radar.
Decades of data indicate that over time, the foundations gave less to the founder’s own community and religious causes. But the share of their donations supporting social movements rose.
Asking for input is more common than letting stakeholders help set a foundation’s priorities or giving them any say where grant money flows.
Some suggest women’s lack of competitiveness relative to men is one reason for the persistent gap between how much men and women earn.
Overconfidence is often a contributing factor to market crashes, like the financial crisis of 2008.
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Director, Institute for Social and Health Equity; Social and Healty Equity Endowed Chair, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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