More than Just Summer Reading: The Shift to "Summer Learning"

More than just vanilla.

Neurotrophins: More to NGF than just survival

NGF's role in neuronal survival has tended to mask other potential functions. But now the generation of mice lacking both Bax - required for the death of NGF-deprived neurons - and NGF or its receptor has shown that NGF plays a key role in establishing cutaneous innervation and regulating neuropeptide expression.

Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap

learning inform fundamental questions of educational stratification and help parse school, family, and community influences on children’s academic development. With children “in” their homes, schools, and communities during the school year, but just “in” their homes and communities over the summer months, the academic calendar approximates a natural experiment that affords leverage for isolatin...

More than just big ears

To the non-specialist, large ears in elephants used to mean African, small ears, Indian. But to taxonomists African elephants have long posed a more complex puzzle. During the nineteenth century, it was fashionable for wealthy trophy hunters to assign their own names to species they had shot destined for the museums of Europe. At least 18 elephant subspecies were claimed following this fashion....

EHPnet: More Than Just Unleaded