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Lockdown or active shooter drill? The distinction matters for children’s safety and well-being
Lockdown and active shooter simulations look and feel very different, though people often lump the two practices together.
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Trump’s thumbs-up to Irish reunification breaks with precedent, but evokes earlier age of White House support
Trump waded intro controversial territory with his comments in Ireland.
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Pittsburgh’s kindergartners fall below the measles safety threshold, testing the city’s vaccine legacy
Pittsburgh helped pioneer the polio vaccine. Now, as measles cases rise across Pennsylvania, an epidemiologist explains the disease and the vaccine that prevents it.
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We paid college students about $5 a night to sleep at least 7 hours – and their grades quickly improved
Universities and colleges won’t necessarily pay students to sleep. But they can offer other incentives that encourage them to close their eyes earlier.
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How libraries in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other Pennsylvania communities evolved from subscription clubs to vital public institutions
The nation’s first successful circulating library was established almost 300 years ago by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.
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To crack the job market, internships can be just as key for young people as the degree
Job preparation through internships matters more than ever for young people amid a precarious and fast-changing job market.
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No, AI systems don’t have a drive to survive – a developmental psychologist explains why it only looks that way
In tests, some AI systems resisted being shut down. But an instinct to stay “alive” isn’t the reason they behaved that way.
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Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study
Scientists recreated cosmic rays in a massive underground particle collider.
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School choice proponents say it offers families more options – but those don’t always extend to immigrant students
School choice heavily influences immigrant students’ experiences in Charleston schools and can leave them in segregated academic environments, new findings show.