Spurred largely by a 1999 report that cited gender discrimination among reasons why women accounted for less than 10% of MIT’s science and engineering faculty, the school made a concerted effort to address the stereotypes and m…
A new study says top-performing teachers turn out students who learn more than the students who had the worst teachers. And that extra learning has a huge impact on earnings — and the nation’s economy. Still, some educational …
Aside from the embarrassment, researchers know deceptions like the autism research fraud can have much larger consequences, both for the parents of autistic children and for the future of their studies. Says one prominent scien…
Social media websites such as Facebook make people more sociable, researchers say.
The findings contradict a widespread belief that online socializing is replacing in person contact as people shun the world beyond their computer screen.
“Our findin…
Virgin Galactic, which aims to be the world’s first commercial space carrier, successfully tested its suborbital spaceship, Enterprise.
Enterprise made its first solo test flight in California on Sunday, BBC News reported. The spaceship was carried to 45,000 feet by a plane, then dropped to glide back to earth.
Virgin Galactic plans to charge $200,000 to take passengers on short…
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