Research

MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style

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Legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, even for lawyers. Lawyers tended to prefer plain English versions of documents, and...

Uphill battles: Across the country in 75 days

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Amulya Aluru ’23, MEng ’24, will head to the University of California at Berkeley for a PhD in molecular and...

One term of empathy training measurably improved classroom behaviour

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The findings come from an evaluation of the “Empathy Programme”: a term-long course developed by the UK-based Empathy Studios. Empathy...

The brain’s balancing system

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A finding by a McGill-led team of neuroscientists could open doors to new treatments for a range of psychiatric and...

Prenatal smoking risks academic achievement of unborn babies

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An additional meta-analysis of eight primary studies with 723,877 participants showed that children exposed to maternal prenatal tobacco smoking were...

RFJ Jr. once chain-sawed off whale’s head, took it home, daughter says

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once lopped off the head of a dead, beached whale with a chain saw, according to...

In six new rogue worlds, Webb telescope finds more star birth clues

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"We used Webb's unprecedented sensitivity at infrared wavelengths to search for the faintest members of a young star cluster, seeking...

When the lights turned on in the universe

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The James Webb Space Telescope has begun providing rich data from bodies at the very edge of the universe, exactly...

VIDEO: Teaching Quality in the Nordic Countries – what have we learned?

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After five years of research and more than 500 hours of classroom videos analysed, what have we learned about the...

LZ experiment sets new record in search for elusive dark matter

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Dr Theresa Fruth, from the School of Physics, prepares to descend a mile underground at the LZ experiment facility in...