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By the yardstick of its own goals, the nation’s second-largest school system is likely to fall short by nearly every parameter — taking in sample measures of literacy, math and social emotional learning.

From Los Angeles Times

Fire activity continued to rise as soils kept drying through 2015, when the samples were collected.

From Science Daily

The work also highlights how modern data analysis can reveal overlooked dangers hidden in older samples collected years before the virus drew attention.

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Laboratory testing showed that stool samples collected from patients during active ABS flare-ups produced far more ethanol than samples from household partners or healthy controls.

From Science Daily

As part of the project, the researchers are releasing what they describe as the world's largest publicly available collection of peripheral blood smear images, totaling more than half a million samples.

From Science Daily