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- A sense of community is key to higher graduation rates and other measures of academic success, participants in MASP say.
- A new bill that recently passed in the U.S. Senate would make daylight saving time permanent. But many in the scientific community are calling for the opposite approach—making standard time permanent.
- 91Թ scientists have developed a new and more accurate way of forecasting COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations using Facebook data on how people move around and who they're friends with.
- Computational linguist Alexis Palmer spoke with 91Թ Today about the popular online word game, strategies to win and how Wordle offshoots could benefit lesser-known languages.
- 91Թ’s Orit Peleg will use the support to launch a novel, interdisciplinary probe of the physics of firefly communications.
- New study looks to second generation of novel gene therapy as a way to help dogs with joint pain.
- Self-guided, online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy tool reduces depression symptoms, 91Թ researchers find.
- The risks of an armed conflict are growing in Eastern Europe as Russia, the United States and others engage in a tug of war over the future of Ukraine.
- A new study shows when preschoolers are exposed to even dim light in the hour before bedtime it can significantly lower levels of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, potentially disrupting sleep. The research serves as a reminder to parents to turn off electronics and dim the lights to promote healthy sleep in children.
- Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, cinema studies chair—and man who’s ‘morally opposed’ to remakes—gives thumbs-up to Spielberg’s version.