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Soft skills matter: The key to academic success

DNVN - A new Nature Human Behaviour study, co-led by Dr Margherita Malanchini at Queen Mary University of London and Dr Andrea Allegrini at University College London, found that non-cognitive skills like motivation and self-regulation are just as important as intelligence in determining academic achievement.

DNVN - Procrastination, or the deliberate but detrimental deferral of tasks, takes many forms. Sahiti Chebolu of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics analyses its various patterns and the underlying causes of them using an exact mathematical framework. Her observations may be useful in modifying specific approaches to the problem.
DNVN - In a study published in Nature Geoscience, researchers at the University of Birmingham discovered that marine cloud brightening (MCB), also known as marine cloud engineering, works primarily by increasing cloud cover, which accounts for 60-90% of the cooling effect.