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  1. Hands-on Math Insights: Teachers’ mismatched gestures boost learning

    As teachers instruct a child, they typically use their hands as well as their voices, but only certain gestures pack a powerful educational punch.

    By Bruce Bower

  2. 19504

    I was disappointed in news coverage of this dinosaur find in China. Science News and others ran an illustration with an obvious mistake. Unless the newly discovered mammal, Repenomamus giganticus, and its smaller cousin, Repenomamus robustus, were unique animals, they did not have legs that emerged from their sides giving them a sprawling, reptilian body […]

    By Science News
  3. Paleontology

    Reptilian Repast: Ancient mammals preyed on young dinosaurs

    Two nearly complete sets of fossilized remains from 130-million-year-old rocks are revealing fresh details about the size and dietary habits of ancient mammals, hinting that some of these creatures were large enough to feast on small dinosaurs.