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Coldest Lava Exoplanet Found to Hold an Atmosphere

Exoplanets continue to challenge our understanding of planetary formation, evolution, and whether they might be able to support life as we know it. Scientists often use planets in our solar system as analogs for exoplanets, studying exoplanets with extremely short orbital periods forces scientists to constantly rethink our understanding of what planets can withstand during their lifetimes. One…

Coldest Lava Exoplanet Found to Hold an Atmosphere

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Parents’ jobs linked more strongly than education to teens’ PISA scores, study finds

Knowing what parents did for a living allowed researchers to account for over double the difference in students’ scores as knowing how much education the parents had.

  • Parent occupation stronger influence than education on teens' PISA scores
  • Fathers' jobs in tech, science linked to higher children's performance
  • Mothers' jobs in tech correlated with higher children's reading scores

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