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Anyone traveling by train across Europe spends a surprisingly large portion of the trip not on a moving train. Today, about 25% of travel time is spent on transfers and layovers at train stations because […]

Working from home and digital technology may be making it easier for employees to work while ill and blurring the boundaries between work and home, according to a new study.This post was originally published on […]

Researchers at La Trobe University are using a robot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to better prepare teachers to deal with challenging conversations in schools.This post was originally published on this site

Some private schools have begun asking parents to sign a code of conduct to try to stop abusive behavior toward teachers.This post was originally published on this site

We like to believe that whatever ails a company can be fixed by digitizing it. And technology is easy to swap. Rip out the old system, bolt in the new one, declare yourself modern. But […]

Black parents who experienced higher levels of appropriated racial oppression—defined as shaping one’s behavior and self-concept around dominant cultural norms of whiteness—were less likely to transmit positive, culturally protective messages that affirmed racial pride and […]

Ukrainian parents who joined a support group program called “Hope Groups,” designed for families living through the war, reported that violence against children was cut in half and that they had less than half the […]

For the first time in Finland, population-level norm values have been established for estimating life expectancy adjusted for health-related functional capacity and productivity. The new study provides Finnish norm values for both everyday functioning and […]

Intelligent people tend to perform better at school and at work, as numerous studies have shown. But what happens in domains where incentives such as good grades or financial rewards don’t apply and where socioeconomic […]

Even as the scientific community has reached a broad consensus that infectious pathogens, such as viruses, can spread through virus-laden aerosols, one fundamental challenge remains: How can scientific evidence be transformed into public understanding—and ultimately […]