- Why students cheat (after Brimble, 2016) by Dr. Mirjam S. Glessmer at Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching.
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Sometimes, cheating might feel like it’s the only solution to survive and finish a course among competing priorities. Credit: ccarlstead via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) |
- One flash of light, one vision: Carrots, colour and chemistry by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask.
- People with anxiety show abnormal patterns of cortical thinning across development, study finds by Beth Ellwood for Psypost.
- Communicating while dreaming by Steven Novella for Neurologica.
- Our brains “See” beams of motion emanating from people’s faces towards the object of their attention by Sofia Deleniv for BPS Research Digest.
- What is burnout? 16 signs and symptoms of excessive stress by Alicia Nortje, Ph.D. for Positive Psychology.
- Having trouble sleeping? Look to the moon for answers by Anna Wernick for Massive Science.
- Artificial sweeteners may play role in spread of antibiotic resistance by Sci-News.com.
- Abortions can happen safely — and entirely — at home by Leah Coplon and Claire Brindis for Knowable Magazine.
- Rare disease day 2021: Gene therapy ups and downs, again by Ricki Lewis, PhD for DNA Science.
- New findings on two ways children become seriously ill from the Coronavirus by Pam Belluck for The New York Times.
- Researchers develop a new tool to quantify self-care during COVID-19 by Emma Okumura for Massive Science.
- How scientists identified the now iconic spike protein of the novel coronavirus by Andy Brunning for Compound Interest.
- Defective ribosomes leave proteins to build up in our cells by Joyce Yu for Massive Science.
- Using living bacteria to design self-growing engineering materials by Michael Berger for Nanowerk.
- Night owls or early birds: how being active at different times of day allows wildlife to coexist with people by Alina C. Fisher and Tanya Samman for Science Borealis.
- Is eight enough? New study throws planet nine into doubt, but can’t kill it by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.
- We've spotted a neutrino blasted out by a black hole shredding a star by Down Here on Earth.
- Radio signals from Proxima Centauri by Allison Kubo Hutchison at Physics Central.
- Podcast: BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Why are US Covid cases falling? by Tim Harford, Derek Thompson, and Jennifer Dowd for More or Less: Behind the Stats.
- Podcast:Black in science: The legacy of racism in science and how Black scientists are moving the dial by Nicole Mortillaro for CBC Quirks.
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