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1. To improve learning and motivate kids, get them outside.
By the Technical University of Munich
2. Why is suicide risk so high for doctors?
By Matt Hoffman and Kevin Kunzmann in MD Magazine
3. This super wood is stronger than steel — and could replace it as a building material.
By the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland
4. Decolonization is freeing South Africa to reshape its approach to science and tell its own story.
By Linda Nordling in Nature
5. To care for their aging population, Japan is looking to robots. Is the U.S. next?
By Daniel Hurst in the Guardian
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