For university classrooms, are telepresence robots the next best thing to being there?
Credit: Photo provided by Naomi Fitter, OSU College of Engineering. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Telepresence robots help university students learning remotely ...
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High five! It’s possible to create proximity online
Credit: Linköping University Despite physical distance, it's possible to create proximity between family members located in different places. This is ...
Holistic approach best for tackling nonmedical drug use, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Health practitioners are constantly developing new ways to help those with ...
Behavioral intervention, not lovastatin, improves language skills in youth with fragile X
Researchers recommend focusing on nonmedical interventions while the search for helpful drugs continuesCredit: UC Davis Health A UC Davis Health ...
At 8 months, babies already know their grammar
Credit: © Caterina Marino / CNRS / INCC Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of ...
Not a ‘math person’? You may be better at learning to code than you think
Credit: Justin Abernethy/U. of Washington Want to learn to code? Put down the math book. Practice those communication skills instead. ...
Supervisors share effective ways to include people with disabilities in the workplace
Experts report initial results practical implications of the 2017 Kessler Foundation National Employment and Disability Survey: Supervisor PerspectivesCredit: UNHIOD East ...
Annual Reviews launches its 51st journal: Annual Review of Developmental Psychology
This important new interdisciplinary resource covering significant advances in the developmental sciences is available online nowCredit: Annual Reviews Annual Reviews, ...
Canterbury Tales is first major literary work developed as an app
Credit: Photo credit: Dave Stobbe for the University of Saskatchewan. A University of Saskatchewan-led international team has produced the first ...
How zebra finches learn to sing
Credit: Richard Hahnloser, ETH/UZH The ability to learn new motor skills is critical to almost all aspects of our lives. ...
Baby and adult brains ‘sync up’ during play, finds Princeton Baby Lab
It's not your imagination -- you and your baby really are on the same wavelengthCredit: Elise Piazza, Princeton Baby Lab ...
CT startup brings collaborative robotics to children with special needs
Movia Robotics improves educational outcomes for autistic kids with robot technologyCredit: (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo) Robots. These humanoid machines aren't just ...
Hearing through lip-reading
How the brain can create sound information via lip-readingCredit: Bourguignon et al., JNeurosci 2019 Brain activity synchronizes with sound waves, ...
Simple experiment explains magnetic resonance
UC Riverside physics students design a table-top experiment for the classroomCredit: Barsukov lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Physicists at ...
Animated videos advance adoption of agriculture techniques
Credit: Michigan State University In remote areas with low literacy rates, showing animated videos in the local language demonstrating agricultural ...
How extreme environmental conditions affect the human brain
Study from the Antarctic Neumayer-Station IIICredit: Photo: Stahn/Charité A joint press release by Charité and the Max Planck Institute for ...
By imaging the brain, scientists can predict a person’s aptitude for training
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- People with specific brain attributes are more likely than others to ...
Thousands of medieval manuscripts now online in full color through digitization project
Scholars and aficionados can search, download and study 160,000 pages of high-resolution, full-color manuscripts dating to the ninth century, thanks ...
Research to make (fun) multi-player gaming an educational experience
Credit: NC State University A new video game framework brings together two well-studied approaches to educational software in order to ...
The smell of old books could help preserve them
Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b01279 Old books give off a complex mélange of odors, ranging from pleasant ...
