Frontier Science

Educators and researchers around the world, especially in countries with limited resources, need cost-effective, scalable tools for assessing early child development. Direct assessments, a commonly used approach, require children to complete a range of activities that measure academic, physical, and social-emotional skills. These assessments paint a nuanced picture of early child development and are useful to evaluate programs and policies. However, administering direct assessments often takes 30 or more minutes, making them impractical for measuring large populations. Practitioners and researchers need more practical methods.

New research offers compelling evidence that “ancient Egyptian architects possessed profound geotechnical understanding” which has protected the Great Pyramid for thousands of years.

Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating the tracking of genetic change and extinction risk in plants, a McGill University-led study indicates.

Alien life could be leaving a statistical signature detectable in the molecular data already collected by spacecraft, new research suggests.

The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia. Yet the crocodiles that inhabit the region today are just the survivors of a much richer and stranger lost world.

Scientists have confirmed an unexpected discovery in the atmosphere of Mars, according to newly published findings.

Peter Thiel discussed the idea of a secret society with infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails from the disgraced financier released by the Justice Department. In a 2016 email to Japanese technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist Joi Ito, Epstein remarked that Thiel “LOVED the secret socieity [sic] idea. . he has done alot of work on the concept. all failed so far”. Ito responded with a smiley emoji, and replied “let’s do it”. The suggestion that Peter Thiel might […]

They rank among the darkest and coldest places in the solar system: Hundreds of lunar craters, many of them at the moon’s south pole, never receive direct sunlight and lie in permanent shadow. That’s exactly why physicist Jun Ye and his colleagues suggest that these craters are the perfect place to build a critical component for an ultrastable laser.

Subtle changes are occurring in the nighttime world on our planet, according to NASA scientists who say an unexpected pattern has surfaced in new maps of the world’s artificial light.

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