Education
Aug 13, 2025
AI is making reading books feel obsolete, and students have a lot to lose
A perfect storm is brewing for reading.
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Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2025
Getting beyond answers like 'fine' and 'nothing': Five simple ways to spark real talk with kids
Each afternoon, a familiar conversation unfolds in many households.
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2025
As the status quo shifts, we're becoming more forgiving when algorithms mess up
New inventions—like the printing press, magnetic compasses, steam engines, calculators and the internet—can create radical shifts in our everyday lives. Many of these new technologies were met with some degree of skepticism ...
Ecology
Aug 6, 2025
AI is fast-tracking climate research
Artificial intelligence is giving some climate research projects a much-needed boost at a time of worsening extreme weather and funding cuts that threaten science in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Biotechnology
Aug 4, 2025
Crop monitoring system utilizes IoT, AI and other tech to optimize yields, lower costs
Researchers from South Dakota State University presented a high-tech system to help farmers optimize crop yields while lowering costs at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. ...
Social Sciences
Jul 30, 2025
Why smart people fall for false information and what to do about it
America has a misinformation problem. It's in our news feeds, on our social media timelines, and at our kitchen tables. It's driving wedges between friends and family—and sharp political divides.
Biotechnology
Jul 28, 2025
AI agent improves accuracy of gene set analysis by leveraging expert-curated databases
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) agent powered by a large language model (LLM) that creates more accurate and informative descriptions of biological processes ...
Political science
Jul 22, 2025
Q&A: What are the effects of trade restrictions on digital technologies?
President Donald Trump has threatened to levy higher tariffs on more than two dozen countries and on various products in the past few months. China in particular has been a target of the administration's trade wars, aimed ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2025
Naval Postgraduate School launches sustainable buoy to advance research
Located about 3 miles offshore and 5 miles north of the Naval Postgraduate School is a first-of-its-kind ocean-sensing buoy. With 5G technologies and solar panels built in, the buoy has the capabilities to collect oceanographic ...
Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2025
Blue Origin lines up NASA's Mars-bound mission for next New Glenn launch
Blue Origin's first launch of its New Glenn rocket was supposed to send up a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA, but uncertain readiness plans last year forced NASA to yank back its payload. Now things are lining up for ...
