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Requests made by students at the Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana, have just been honored by one of the spacecraft making up the NASA Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. The image they asked for has just been beamed back to Earth.
These students earned their right to reque... |
23 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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The American space agency is very interested in developing a new generations of deep space habitat prototypes. These will be structures in which astronauts of the future will be able to work, at locations far away from the relative safety of low-Earth orbit.
But designing, manufacturing, assembling and testing the ... |
20 March 2012
11:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has just made a series of changes to the way in which its Microsoft Office products are made available for students all around the world.
The main change here is the fact that, as of February 1st, 2012, the Office Academic SKU was replaced with the new Office University SKU.
The new Office University 2... |
13 February 2012
07:38 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced the winners of its Imagine Cup Grants program, which were finalists at the Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finals, and also unveiled plans to continue the competition this year with the Imagine Cup 2012.
The competition is in its tenth year. This anniversary edition will be celebrated at th... |
30 January 2012
10:08 GMT |
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Microsoft has been constantly focused on delivering products tailored for the young. Some of these are the company’s cloud offerings, including SkyDrive and Office Web Apps. These can easily help students better collaborate on various group projects, and all schools, colleges and universities seeking student... |
30 January 2012
04:53 GMT |
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For high school and college students, practicing transcendental meditation (TM) could prove to be one of the easiest, surest ways of reducing the amount of emotional distress they are subject to on a daily basis. The conclusion belongs to a study carried out at the University of California in Los Angeles.
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17 November 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Red Hat has announced that submissions are being accepted for its 2012 Fedora Scholarship program.The program is opened to students from all over the world that have contributed to the Fedora Project. For those unaware, The Fedora Scholarship is awarded to one student, each year, to assist with the recipient’s ... |
14 November 2011
09:40 GMT |
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A group of researchers in Australia proposes a new arsenal that parents and teachers can use to prevent cyberbullying, which is bullying that occurs online, over the phone, through instant messages, private messages of social networking websites and forums, and a variety of other electronic environments. The Queensla... |
4 July 2011
03:05 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers has recently been able to complete simulations of a massive parachute, that will help deploy a new space vehicle on the surface of Mars. The tests have thus far proven successful, and the team is pushing to run even more assessments. With the European Space Agency (ESA) planning to send... |
30 June 2011
07:53 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and software giant Microsoft has announced that those students who satisfy a set of conditions and purchase a Windows 7-powered PC that is worth more than 699 dollars will be able to get a free Xbox 360 S home gaming console with a 4GB hard drive.
The console is now worth about 200 do... |
20 May 2011
03:28 GMT |
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In addition to helping spiritual people cope with the stress of their daily lives, transcendental meditation (TM) can apparently be used to improve academic performances among students whose results are mediocre at best. The conclusions belong to a new scientific study,This specific kind of meditation can apparently ... |
22 March 2011
10:52 GMT |
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Phishers are targeting university students with emails that pose as notifications from the system administrator claiming their .edu email accounts have exceeded the allowed storage quota.According to researchers from M86 Security, as unusual as this lure is, it has been timed to coincide with students returning to sc... |
24 February 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Attending a college or university is no longer a guarantee that a graduate coming out of these institutions will have the ability to think critically. Graduates no longer display this ability, which is very sought-after by employers. Post-secondary education is now something that students go through without having th... |
4 February 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Rather than using elaborate study methods, students learning about science could boost their ability to memorize and understand various concepts related to their interests by practicing memory retrieval.In other words, experts have demonstrated that people are better at understanding science concepts if they remember... |
21 January 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Penn State researchers elaborated a new project, starting from the idea that quick school cafeteria lines could lead to healthier food choices.They said that their experiment will involve middle schools, where there soon might be fast cafeteria lines, in an attempt to help students eat healthier.This entire project i... |
13 January 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Federal agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are currently investigating two foreign-exchange students from Winona State University (WSU) who are suspected of being members of a Vietnamese identity theft ring.The investigation is part of a larger probe into money muling activities and Vietnamese cyber... |
3 January 2011
06:14 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom argue in a new study that children who are smarter and more capable than their peers in the classrooms in fact raise the standards for that group, allowing the others to perform better than usual as well. The correlation holds especially true in key st... |
17 December 2010
04:02 GMT |
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A group of teenagers from the Bournemouth University (BU), in the United Kingdom have agreed to renounce everything having to do with media for 24 hours, as part of the the groundbreaking experiment called Unplugged.Internet, mobile phones, news, music, and television are taboo throughout the investigation, say resea... |
25 October 2010
06:35 GMT |
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Official statistics show that students from the United States who study aboard, mostly in European countries, tend to double the amount of alcohol they usually drink when in their native homeland. The correlation holds true for those who study a single semester or an entire year, the study shows. But some students st... |
11 October 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Researchers in the United Kingdom are currently applying a new method of deterring students from picking up smoking, in several schools in England and Wales. The program proved very successful in medical trials, and its aim will be cutting the rates of teenage smoking across the country, its developers say. This is a... |
11 October 2010
03:19 GMT |
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Microsoft likes young inventive people, than can learn lots of things and maybe one day change the world, so it has quite a bond with the students community.The company does many things to help and encourage students, from organizing events to providing big discounts on its products, giving away tons of free software... |
21 September 2010
10:43 GMT |
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A new research presented yesterday to the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) international conference, suggests that graduates in creative subjects, art, design, performing arts and architecture included, should think about relocating, in order to have a chance of getting a job in ... |
2 September 2010
03:31 GMT |
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Half.com, a leading media ecommerce company, has just released a new iPhone application and Buying Wizard, aimed at helping students during the Back-to-School shopping season. Half.com, an eBay company, enables people buy items at half the normal price sometimes, and offers a nice range of other features too. Accord... |
16 August 2010
11:45 GMT |
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Experts at the Rice University announce that, starting this summer, the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies will be offering students a series of lectures on the latest discoveries in the field. This will be an amazing chance for young, forming experts to get a view of nanotechnology from one of the leading source... |
12 August 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Children who learn more in kindergarten are very likely to end up earning more money than their peers who study less. The conclusion belongs to a new scientific study, which shows that kids who learn a lot tend to cash in higher salaries when they become adults. Research into this correlation is only beginning. Scien... |
11 August 2010
05:15 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that students tend to consume large amounts of alcohol when going to college. The problem has spiraled out of control over the past few years, with young adults engaging in alcohol abuse on a regular basis. This behavior opens up the way for a host of other problems, such as for example dri... |
21 July 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Launched back in March 2010 as a contest aimed at students, the Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” Award competition has just got a winner. The competition saw a number of 131 applications being submitted by student teams, software solutions that were built through the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the d... |
10 June 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Discovering microorganisms in their natural habitat, and analyzing them on the spot, could easily provide researchers with new, more elaborate data on these lifeforms. Studying them in the lab is not always the best thing to do, and at times it may be more efficient to study them in the wild. Researchers at the Arizo... |
9 June 2010
03:59 GMT |
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In a fortunate turn of events, it would appear that the United States had a higher number of students enrolling in science and engineering (S&E) graduate programs in 2008. It is often being said that the strength of a country can be measured by the amount of scientists it has, and the US had taken a turn for the wors... |
3 June 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Statistics show that students who drink and drive are still a major cause of concern, as far as public health goes. Young adults tend to engage in risky behaviors throughout their college years, but none is arguably more dangerous than drinking and then getting behind the wheel. According to a new research, it would ... |
1 June 2010
03:21 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Michigan, in the United States, has recently published the conclusions of a new report, which depicts shifts in empathy among American students. According to the work, it would appear that young adults today are less likely to elicit such feelings in others with the sam... |
29 May 2010
03:50 GMT |
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In a recent investigation on students, researchers determined that most of America's youth that has been exposed to social media tends to become addicted to it. According to the young adults themselves, the catchiest features that sites of this type provide is instant connections with friends and family, as well... |
24 April 2010
04:29 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it would appear that children and teens today have more in common with their parents than they would at times like to admit. The two generations do indeed differ in some traits, but researchers determined that the youngsters are just as self-centered as they parents... |
18 March 2010
03:39 GMT |
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Scientists warn that the phenomenon of cyberbullying is at this point on the rise, affecting an estimated 10 percent of all children between the seventh and ninth grades. Unlike conventional bullying, which only takes place at school, this form of aggression never leaves its targets alone, not even when at home durin... |
23 February 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Experts in Sweden were curious to learn precisely what caused average school performances to decline over the past few decades, so they conducted a study aimed at discerning the causes of this. They determined that a wide variety of factors contributed to these modifications in performances, which appeared to be more... |
15 February 2010
08:31 GMT |
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A new investigation has determined that adolescents who sleep less than their peers, or who have a poorer quality of sleep, tend to be involved in significantly more car crashes. Sleepiness behind the wheel is caused directly by these two factors, and it is often considered to be one of the main catalysts of events t... |
15 February 2010
04:53 GMT |
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A new scientific study turns many a Hollywood sport films into fantasy and fiction. The investigation has revealed that the underdog theory is in fact wrong, and that the favored team is usually the one focusing most on its training, rather than the least favored one. In other words, members of large teams give all t... |
10 February 2010
02:59 GMT |
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No wonder teachers have a hard time designing school timetables at the start of each year. The issue has been cataloged by scientists as an NP-hard problem, right next to other classic logistics puzzles, such as the traveling salesman, and the crystal packing problems. School management officials and teachers are not... |
7 January 2010
05:54 GMT |
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When the space shuttle Atlantis took off to the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-November, it carried with it, among other experiments, a living one as well. Its payload bay also included the “CSI 03 – Butterflies in Space” experiment, which is built by experts at the University of Colorado ... |
3 December 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Over the past few years, actual telephone calls or e-mail accounts have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the SMS (Short Message Service). This has been most visibly reflected in the preferences of young people today. Polls indicate that most people under the age of 21 now use messages to stay in touch, rather ... |
11 November 2009
19:31 GMT |
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According to a new report released by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), more and more minority students are getting their academic degrees, when compared to the numbers recorded only five years ago. Nearly all categories have benefited from this improvement, the experts explain. The study, entitled “Sci... |
5 November 2009
04:08 GMT |
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While working on a project meant to help students in their analysis of astronomical data, West Virginia high school student Lucas Bolyard came across the signature of a very peculiar object, which he passed on to supervising astronomers. This happened in March 2009. After studying the object in greater detail, expert... |
26 September 2009
04:47 GMT |
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The American space agency NASA has officially launched the WING contest, addressed to 6th- to 9th-grade students. The “What If No Gravity?” initiative plans to attract the high-school youth in designing and constructing experiments to be dropped in a NASA Microgravity Environment, or DIME. These so-called... |
25 September 2009
10:20 GMT |
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According to a new report released by Manchester Metropolitan University scientists, it may be that being perceived as good or bad in the classroom is not something that is entirely up to the individual children themselves. The paper reveals that, once parents, other students, and teachers form an opinion about a chi... |
21 September 2009
02:30 GMT |
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The fact that inebriated people tend to speak highly of their future plans and to boast about their achievements is very well known to anyone who set foot in a bar at least once in their lives. In a new study, conducted by two German researchers, they termed this type of unrealistic commitment to fulfilling the most ... |
22 August 2009
04:09 GMT |
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According to this year's National Student Survey (NSS), just completed in the United Kingdom, it would appear that students at Durham University are still among the most satisfied in the country. This year's results confirm previous trends, which showed that the university provides a satisfactory environmen... |
11 August 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Over the past couple of decades, researchers have been drawing attention to a very worrying trend, namely the fact that teens in college tend to drink a lot. That wouldn't be a problem in itself, if it weren't for the fact that more than 1,500 of them die in alcohol-related deaths each year, and also in acc... |
15 June 2009
14:31 GMT |
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According to the first study ever to assess the behavior of high-quality teachers in American schools, top educators are very likely to leave the institutions that are experiencing an affluence of African American students. In other words, whenever a learning institution – that is supposed to offer equal oppor... |
27 May 2009
21:01 GMT |
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One of the main problems facing the scientific communities in the Western world today is one that shouldn't even exist in any civilized nation – how do we get more young people interested in science? While some argue that talking directly to children in their classrooms may seem like the best idea, others ... |
31 March 2009
09:53 GMT |
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According to the British Home Office, more than a quarter of all colleges in the country that currently enlist foreign students for classes do not have a legal authorization to do that. Before sponsoring international students, each of these learning institutions need to have a written approbation from the UK Border ... |
31 March 2009
08:43 GMT |
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