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Month: October 2025

Math

Declining rates of high-level math in VCE contributing to nation’s widening skills gap

October 23, 2025 Phys Org

Australia’s engineering skills gap and labor shortage is the highest it’s been for more than a decade. New Swinburne research could explain why.This article was originally published on this website.

Technology

Novel carbon nanotube-based transistors reach THz frequencies

October 23, 2025 Tech Xplore

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), cylindrical nanostructures made of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, have proved to be promising for the fabrication of various electronic devices. In fact, these structures exhibit outstanding electrical conductivity and […]

Technology

Secret QR codes and hidden warnings: 3D printing technique allows precise control of material properties, point by point

October 23, 2025 Tech Xplore

3D printing is extremely practical when you want to produce small quantities of customized components. However, this technology has always had one major problem: 3D printers can only process a single material at a time. […]

Education

College faculty are under pressure to say and do the right thing. The stress also trickles down to students

October 22, 2025 Phys Org

Heavy teaching loads, shrinking university budgets and expanding workload expectations have fueled stress and burnout among professors and other university employees in recent years.This article was originally published on this website.

Education

AI tutor bots show promise as learning supplements

October 22, 2025 Phys Org

Educators’ concerns are running high when it comes to AI and how it may undermine teaching and learning. But what if teachers could find ways to use AI to measurably help students learn, rather than […]

Education

Can AI keep students motivated, or does it do the opposite?

October 22, 2025 Phys Org

Imagine a student using a writing assistant powered by a generative AI chatbot. As the bot serves up practical suggestions and encouragement, insights come more easily, drafts polish up quickly and feedback loops feel immediate. […]

Technology

Semi-transparent solar cells achieve record efficiency to advance building-integrated photovoltaics

October 22, 2025 Tech Xplore

A research team has developed an innovative parameter, FoMLUE, to evaluate the potential of photoactive materials for semi-transparent organic photovoltaics (ST-OPVs), paving the way for their widespread commercial applications.This article was originally published on this […]

Math

Human ingenuity outpaces AI in finding new ‘kissing number’ bounds

October 22, 2025 Phys Org

How many coins can touch one coin, or how many basketballs can “kiss” one basketball at the same time? This seemingly playful question lies at the heart of the famous kissing number problem, a mathematical […]

Computers

Ground-to-satellite laser communications applies next-generation error correction codes

October 22, 2025 Tech Xplore

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech), collaborating with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have achieved the world’s first successful demonstration of next-generation error correction […]

Internet

What’s next for the internet? Competing visions for the metaverse

October 22, 2025 Tech Xplore

The race to build the metaverse—a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge—is already becoming a global power struggle.This article was originally published on this website.

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