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In the first-ever release from PCAP — PCAP 2007 — Manitoba students were in the middle of the rankings, as usual to that point, in reading and mathematics. In science the rank was eighth among ...

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Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy ...

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Diagnoses of depression, one of the most common mental disorders, increased by nearly 50% between 1990 and 2017, according to ...

A new paper published in The Gerontologist provides the most comprehensive scientific response to date addressing recent ...

Nature is full of amazing adaptations, some of which are almost difficult to imagine. One such example is that of the ...

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The landscape of next-generation sequencing (NGS) continues to be defined by astonishing technological progress. We continue ...

In Truth, Michael Shermer (the publisher of Skeptic magazine, podcaster, and author of more than a dozen books, including ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.