Thursday, July 17, 2025

Offbeat: How the arts can help students who struggle most —

Incorporating the arts -- rapping, dancing, drawing -- into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of...

Offbeat: Scientists point out the study’s major flaws —

Amidst worldwide publicity and talks about 'Insectageddon': the extinction of 40% of the world's insects, as estimated in a recent scientific review, a...

Offbeat: Citizen scientists discover pinhead-sized beetle in Borneo —

How many citizen scientists does it take to discover a new species? A recent expedition to the Ulu Temburong forest in Borneo proved...

Offbeat: North Korea's 2017 bomb test set off later earthquakes, new analysis finds

Using newly refined analysis methods, scientists have discovered that a North Korean nuclear bomb test last fall set off aftershocks over a period...

Offbeat: Who should Fido fear? Depends on relationship —

As states around the country move to stiffen punishments for animal cruelty, Michigan State University researchers have found a correlation between the types...

Offbeat: It alone could produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures as soon as...

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change finds that if Bitcoin is implemented at similar rates at which other...

Offbeat: Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’ —

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history -- and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on...

Offbeat: Computational model links family members using genealogical and law-enforcement databases —

The notion of using genetic ancestry databases to solve crimes recently crossed from hypothetical into credible when police used an online genealogical database...

Offbeat: Research suggests that there are more layers to political trust than the public...

There's more to trust than credence and faith, especially as it comes to politics. Research from Michigan State University and North Carolina State...

Offbeat: You can’t tell whether an online restaurant review is fake — but this...

Sites like TripAdvisor, Yelp and Amazon display user reviews of products and services. Consumers take heed: nine out of ten people read these...

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