Education
The rise of AI tools forces schools to reconsider what counts as cheating
The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete.This article was originally published on this website.
Month: September 2025
Math
New statistical tool enhances prediction accuracy
An international team of mathematicians, led by Lehigh University statistician Taeho Kim, has introduced an innovative method that could significantly improve how scientists make predictions, especially in fields like health, biology, and the social sciences.This […]
Technology
Humans sense a collaborating robot as part of their ‘extended’ body
Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (U.S.) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their body schema, particularly […]
Technology
Self-tuning energy device turns vibrations into power
Researchers at National Taiwan University developed a new device that captures energy from vibrations more efficiently. Its self-adjusting mechanism enables resonance with environmental frequencies, resulting in higher power output across a broader operational range.This article […]
Technology
DNA cassette tapes could solve global data storage problems
Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, and we are creating data faster than we can store it. Fortunately, we don’t have to […]
Education
Chalk and talk vs. active learning: What’s holding South African teachers back from using proven methods?
As a full-time teacher completing a Ph.D. part-time, I made a decision early on: do research that speaks to the daily realities of teachers and teaching. And so, the idea came from a lived experience—the […]
Technology
Robot dogs, flying cars: five takeaways from the Munich auto show
From “flying cars” to robots and self-driving buses, here are some of the innovations spotted at this week’s Munich auto fair, IAA Mobility, one of the world’s biggest:This article was originally published on this website.
Technology
Machine embroidery encodes skin-like tension lines in textiles, enabling mass-customizable wearables
A zigzag stitch enables fabric to stretch until the thread is straight. University of Tartu researchers report in Advanced Materials that thread packing can encode fabric stretchability, leading the way to tailoring wearables at an […]
Education
Could AI write an academic paper and get published without anyone noticing?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. In the world of academia, it’s having a big impact.This article was originally published on this website.
Computers
Do chatbots have a moral compass? Researchers turn to Reddit to find out
By challenging AI chatbots to judge thousands of moral dilemmas posted in a popular Reddit forum, UC Berkeley researchers revealed that each platform appears to follow its own set of ethics.This article was originally published […]