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Archaeologists Say They’ve Found a 3,000-Year-Old Map of the Cosmos at an Ancient Maya Site in Mexico

New research sheds light on a cross-shaped pit found at Aguada Fénix, a monumental complex discovered several years ago ...
Edutopia

A 5-Stage Strategy Students Can Use to Tackle Word Problems

Students aren’t necessarily missing the math, they’re missing how to make sense of the problem itself. Once we see ...
TwistedSifter on MSN

Ancient Clay Tablet Reveals That The Babylonians Knew The Pythagorean Theorem Over 1,000 Years Before Pythagoras Lived

The earliest known evidence for the Pythagorean Theorem comes from an ancient clay tablet called, “IM 67118.” This tablet ...
eLife

Acute opioid responses are modulated by dynamic interactions of Oprm1 and Fgf12

Utilizing high-quality, time-series Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) mapping, the work provides compelling evidential support for novel, time-dependent genetic interactions (epistasis). A fundamental ...