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Month: June 2026

Education

Physical punishment of children is harmful and must be banned, UK researchers say

June 11, 2026 Phys Org

Hitting children (often referred to as smacking) by parents or caregivers as a form of punishment is linked to behavioral problems and worse exam results and should be prohibited in England and Northern Ireland as […]

Internet

Canada moves to ban under-16s from social media, regulate AI

June 11, 2026 Tech Xplore

Canada’s culture minister on Wednesday introduced legislation that would ban children under 16 from having social media accounts and require AI chatbot services to limit the production of harmful content.This article was originally published on […]

Computers

What confusing code does to developers: Brain and eye tracking reveal surprise response

June 10, 2026 Tech Xplore

How do software developers respond when they come across code they do not intuitively understand? Neuropsychologists have now explored this question by recording brain activity alongside eye movements. A team of psycholinguists then compared the […]

Computers

Osprey-inspired algorithm lifts Chinese-English translation accuracy

June 10, 2026 Tech Xplore

Research published in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology has taken inspiration from the hunting behavior of the fish-eating bird of prey, the osprey, and combined this with inspiration from quantum computing to […]

Math

‘Basketball Mathematics’ help children boost math skills without extra class time

June 10, 2026 Phys Org

A dribble and a jump shot, followed by a fractions task. That is what physical education classes looked like for a group of pupils, and the pupils not only found the lessons more engaging than […]

Computers

Thirty-five AI comedians walked into a workshop, and what happened next could reshape how machines learn humor

June 10, 2026 Tech Xplore

Workshopping, an iterative process in which creators share ideas, test what works and refine what doesn’t through collective feedback, is at the heart of any writers group. This collaborative dynamic inspired George Mason University Ph.D. […]

Math

Parents helping kids enjoy math may boost achievement as much as content support

June 10, 2026 Phys Org

How do children learn math? It’s shaped by what they know as well as their motivation and engagement. Historically, research on children’s math learning has been focused on parents’ cognitive practices (such as math talk—informal […]

Math

Football tracking data uncovers rival tactics beyond TV formations before 2026 World Cup

June 9, 2026 Phys Org

From June 11, countless millions of people will be following the football World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. They will discuss their team’s performance, talk like experts about tactics and formations, and cower […]

Math

Hidden geometry explains why kernel methods separate complex data so well

June 8, 2026 Phys Org

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously difficult in modern datasets, because they are often high-dimensional, complex, and differences […]

Computers

AI worldview convergence claim weakens as high-dimensional math skews similarity scores

June 8, 2026 Tech Xplore

Two years ago, researchers at MIT proposed a provocative idea: As AI models become more powerful, they begin to see the world in the same way. But not everyone was convinced, and now EPFL scientists […]

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