Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005 Dan Tuffs/Getty Images When I’m asked by a Le Guin neophyte where to start, I rarely recommend The Dispossessed. I wouldn’t urge a stranger …
What is Scientific research during a Master’s program？ Key : Reproducibility: Ensuring your research can be replicated by others. Discoveries: May involve small-scale findings or contributing to larger projects. Efficiency: …
Costa’s Levels of Questioning — designed by educational researcher Art Costa — feature three tiers of questioning designed to promote higher-level thinking and inquiry. Similar to Bloom’s taxonomy, Costa’s lower …
The unusually tiny particles of hexavalent chromium could pose a health hazard despite low levels, researchers say
Drs. Fiona Beaty (left) and Alex Moore (right) are conducting their conservation research in collaboration with the people in the ecosystems they’re studying to develop findings in a more meaningful …
The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realized… Research published in Nature on August 27 reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million …
“Data is the new oil, Kaggle is the refinery.” Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash For beginners in data science, researchers, and professionals alike, Kaggle offers a thriving ecosystem for …
Their preliminary results were “sobering,” according to a June report by the University of Chicago Education Lab and MDRC, a research organization. The researchers found that tutoring during the 2023-24 …
The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster The New Scientist Book Club made a jump backwards through time for our latest read, Alex Foster’s …
Funders test algorithms to spot promising science, raising hopes of faster reviews—and fears of bias