Observing how cells adhere to surfaces and their motility is vitally essential in studying tissue maintenance, injury healing, and even understanding exactly how cancer progresses. A brand-new paper published in The European Physical Journal Plus by Raj Kumar Sadhu, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, steps towards a deeper understanding of these processes."Cell adhesion...
If you are considering taking a performing or visual arts subject in years 11 and also 12, you are making a few considerations. These might include your interest and affinity to the topic, how doing a few arts subjects may influence your entry into university, and what to do with skills you learn.Approximately 30%...
Teachers must take advantage of children's love for computer games to improve their class learning, discovered a new Australian study.The research considered the 'video gaming' habits of 318 girls and kids in Year 3 (seven and eight years old) from 14 Queensland schools across the Federal government, Anglican, and Catholic sectors.The searchings for "Young...
Academic departments in ecology, evolution and preservation biology are progressively aware of the need to deal with persistent barriers and challenges faced by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in these subjects. A diverse group of professors, staff, and students in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at UC Santa Cruz...
A trio of scientists at the University of Oxford has discovered that male characters appear more frequently than female characters in stories written by kids of either sex. In their paper published in the journal Society for Research in Child Development, Yaling Hsiao, Nilanjana Banerji, and Kate Country explain their analysis of short stories...
Experimental session. Credit: M. SilvaThe journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences published a study from The Paleoneurology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación Sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) led by Emiliano Bruner. This study analyzes visual exploration patterns during handling of Lower Paleolithic tools, being the first application of the eye-tracking methodology to real stone...
Credit: University of ManchesterThe origins of Arthur's Stone, one of the UK's most famous Stone Age monuments, were discovered by archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and Cardiff.According to Manchester's Professor Julian Thomas, who led the excavation, the ominous Herefordshire tomb links to nearby "halls of the dead" discovered in 2013.This construction inspired the...
Remains of Linya, recovered in Cova Gran site. Credit: CEPAAt the Cova Gran de Santa Linya site (La Noguera, Lleida), the remains of a female attributed to H. sapiens were discovered by scientists of the Centro Nacional de Investigación Sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH). The carbon-14 record of the sediments in the natural vessel...
Photo by Clay Banks on UnsplashThere are many books on what's wrong with the economy ( Chang 2014; Keen 2011; Nelson 2018, Mazzucato 2018, Raworth 2018, Stanford 2015 ) and what we would need to do to change it. Considering the small change we've seen in economics training and effective policy economic thinking since the 2007/08 global...
The storage vessel after restoration - Photo: Dafna Gazit Israel Antiquities Authority. Medicine: Joseph BocangolzA team of scientists from the Israel Antiquities Authority found evidence of a massive earthquake in the city of Jerusalem dating back to approximately 2,800 years ago.Previous research had uncovered evidence of a significant earthquake in Israel in the mid-eighth...
