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How one school is using hands-on and high-energy learning to help its low-income students succeed
Elena Gomez, 9, is the meteorologist on a live televised newscast at her magnet elementary school in Vista.“I’ve learned that I have to speak up because… -
Wikipedia At 15: The Struggle To Attract Non-Techy Geeks
For more than a quarter of people around the world, for as long as they’ve been alive, there’s always been Wikipedia. This week, the online crowd-sourced… -
Stargazer's Guide For January 2016
There’s some good news and some not so good news for NASA as 2016 gets underway, but for backyard stargazers it promises to be a month to remember, with… -
Winter Blues? Post Holiday Depression? It's All In Your Mind, Well, Your Brain
The way your body reacts to the seasons is controlled by a very old and primitive part of the brain that is about the size of a walnut. It’s called the… -
'The Angry Sea Will Kill Us All' Sing Residents Of Pacific Island Kiribati
Sea level rise and increasingly extreme weather are among the most visible impacts of climate change. Coastal communities around Massachusetts are facing… -
Climate Change Denial Explained: It's All In the Mind!
It’s a busy month for those fighting the impending catastrophe known as climate change. Reports from COP21 — the UN Climate Summit in Paris — say the tens… -
WT(1190)F Is Up With All The Junk In Space?
This Friday, an object that scientists have been carefully tracking for some time now, dubbed WT1190F, will enter the earth’s atmosphere in the skies… -
Federal bill calls for better education for prenatal genetic tests
Worried that too few doctors and pregnant women understand that new prenatal genetic tests can be wrong a significant amount of time, two U.S.… -
WATCH: Octopuses Appear To Take Up Arms As Submarine Warfare Escalates
There may be an octopus arms race underway. And that’s not even a joke about tentacles: Octopuses are actually fighting, and potentially using weapons.The… -
Campaign aims to educate women and doctors about prenatal genetic tests
Quest Diagnostics, one of nation’s largest diagnostic testing companies, is funding a nationwide campaign by the Perinatal Quality Foundation — a national non-profit dedicated to improving obstetrical car — to raise awareness of cell-free DNA tests.