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#Scicomm is a hashtag, and there are many programs that claim to teach scientists how to be better communicators. But it's hard to show exactly what they're accomplishing.
Students who took part in the program scored 8% higher on the state science test than students who received traditional instruction, and demonstrated greater social and emotional learning.
Nigeria’s academic community is mourning the death of engineering professor and university administrator, Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe.
A national coalition of scientists, communicators and health experts is empowering Canadians to work together against online misinformation about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines with #ScienceUpFirst.
This ancient ecosystem showed that the ice sheet had melted to the ground
in northern Greenland within the past million years.
A new report co-authored with former universities minister Jo Johnson has revealed the depth of scientific collaboration between the UK and China.
Chief Scientist Cathy Foley says high-tech manufacturing is the way forward for Australia.
As climate change drives pollen counts upward, that could potentially result in greater human susceptibility to other viruses, as well.
In the digital age, and the COVID era, this is more important than ever.
Nigeria could close the skills gap in the manufacturing sector by including 3D printing in the curriculum of engineering programmes.
Microbes can alter the minds of mouse mothers and disrupt their natural instinct to nurture their young.
Thanks to the discovery of five twinkling galaxies in a rare alignment, astronomers have been able to calculate — for the first time — the properties and geometry of an invisible gas cloud in space.
'Science 4.0' is real. It is about a revolution in which science is an integral part of society.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution failed to deliver; it's time that we put our faith once again in hard science.
Breeding cats for exaggerated facial features might have hindered our ability to understand them.
The tiny air pollutants known as PM2.5, emitted by vehicles, factories and power plants, aren’t just a hazard for lungs. A study finds more brain shrinkage in older women exposed to pollution.
Public health recommendations have always been a hard sell. Resistance to new behaviors – like the mask-wearing and social distancing advised during the COVID-19 pandemic – is part of human nature.
Thousands of chemical compounds in wildfire smoke are interacting with each other and sunlight as the smoke travels. For people downwind, it can become more toxic over time.
Results from the world’s longest running large-scale international assessment of maths and science show Australia has significantly improved in Year 8 maths and science, and Year 4 science.
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