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Technology2 Dec 2025

Are primary students prepared to write in a digital world?

2 December 2025 Are primary students prepared to write in a digital world? A nation-wide study on computer-based writing instruction in Australian classrooms, led by researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in collaboration with colleagues from the Writing for All research group, has shined a spotlight on how little time and attention primary schools are giving to teaching students how to write using a computer. Lead author Dr Anabela Malpique from the School of Education at ECU said the research surveyed 340 primary education teachers (Years ...

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Technology2 Dec 2025

First Nations Australians twice as likely to be digitally excluded: report

First Nations Australians are twice as likely as other Australians to be digitally excluded and face barriers to accessing, affording and using the internet. For those living in remote Australia, the barriers are much greater. Three in four First Nations people living in remote and very remote communities are digitally excluded according to the Mapping the Digital Gap report by RMIT University and Swinburne University of Technology. This means many face significant barriers to accessing and using online services needed for daily social, economic and cultural life. This 2025 outcomes report draws on three years of ...

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Technology2 Dec 2025

Pusan National University researchers use AI to create optimized engine components that outperform human designs

Gerotor pumps for oil circulation and lubrication are crucial components in automotive and hydraulic systems. They possess a compact design, excellent flow rate per rotation, and high suction capability. The gerotor tooth profile plays a significant role in determining the overall performance of hydraulic systems for engine lubrication and automatic transmission. Unfortunately, conventional design methods leverage predefined mathematical curves and iterative adjustments, which compromises their optimization ...

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Technology2 Dec 2025

Groundbreaking research compares prompt styles and LLMs for structured data generation - Unveiling key trade-offs for real-world AI applications

Nashville, TN & Williamsburg, VA – 24 Nov 2025 – A new study published in Artif. Intell. Auton. Syst. delivers the first systematic cross-model analysis of prompt engineering for structured data generation, offering actionable guidance for developers, data scientists, and organizations leveraging large language models (LLMs) in healthcare, e-commerce, and beyond. Led by Ashraf Elnashar from Vanderbilt University, alongside co-authors Jules White (Vanderbilt University) and Douglas C. Schmidt (William & ...

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Technology1 Dec 2025

Asia PGI and partners unveil preview of PathGen: New AI-powered outbreak intelligence tool

SINGAPORE, 1 December 2025 – Asia Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Asia PGI) today offered the first public preview of PathGen, an AI-powered sense-making and decision-making support platform of pathogen genomics and contextual data. Designed for public health practitioners, clinicians and industry, it can help detect emerging disease threats earlier, assess risks faster, and coordinate responses within and across borders, all without compromising countries’ ownership of their respective sovereign data. The objective is to strengthen health security across Asia and beyond, ...

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Technology1 Dec 2025

New AI could teach the next generation of surgeons

In an increasingly acute surgeon shortage, artificial intelligence could help fill the gap, coaching medical students as they practice surgical techniques. A new tool, trained on videos of expert surgeons at work, offers students real-time personalized advice as they practice suturing. Initial trials suggest AI can be a powerful substitute teacher for more experienced students. “We’re at a pivotal time. The provider shortage is ever increasing and we need to find new ways to provide more and better opportunities for practice. Right now, an attending surgeon who already is short on time needs to come in and watch students practice, and rate them, and give them detailed feedback—that ...

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Technology1 Dec 2025

Report reveals potential of AI to help Higher Education sector assess its research more efficiently and fairly

Topline summary * Study indicates generative AI tools are being used widely by UK Universities for the REF * Findings show disparate level and nature of usage * Results highlight need for national oversight and guidelines * With innovative mindset and structured support…scope to improve efficiency and equitable access Full release A new national report has shown for the first time how generative AI (GenAI) is already being used by some universities to assess the quality of their research – and it could be scaled up to help all higher education institutions ...

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Technology28 Nov 2025

Reducing human effort in rating software

By Alistair Jones SMU Office of Research Governance & Administration – A dystopian future where advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems replace human decision-making has long been a trope of science fiction. The malevolent computer HAL, which takes control of the spaceship in Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a chilling example. But rather than being fearful of automation, a more useful response is to consider what types of repetitive human tasks could be safely offloaded to AI, particularly with the advances of large language ...

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Technology28 Nov 2025

Robots that rethink: A SMU project on self-adaptive embodied AI

By Vince Chong SMU Office of Research Governance & Administration – It might not be ubiquitous just yet but embodied artificial intelligence is slowly but surely cementing its place in the world. Robotic systems equipped with sensors and cameras help with everything from factory assembly to surgery, while autonomous, self-driving cars and drones are science fiction no more. Despite these advances though, there is a limit to what embodied AI can do in unpredictable, everyday environments like homes or offices. Say, a robotic arm may be programmed ...

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Technology28 Nov 2025

SMU and South Korea to create seminal AI deepfake detection tool

SMU Office of Research Governance & Administration – In a coup for Singapore Management University (SMU), a team led by Associate Professor of Computer Science He Shengfeng has edged out competing research institutions to clinch a grant for developing a groundbreaking deepfake detection system. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) project, when completed in an estimated three years’ time, promises to have widespread commercial applications. It would also be the first multilingual deepfake data set that includes dialectal variants such as Singlish and Korean dialects. “Many existing tools don’t perform well on Asian languages, accents, or content,” ...

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Technology27 Nov 2025

Social media research tool can lower political temperature. It could also lead to more user control over algorithms.

A new tool shows it is possible to turn down the partisan rancor in an X feed – without removing political posts and without the direct cooperation of the platform. The Stanford-led research, published in Science, also indicates that it may one day be possible to let users take control of their own social media algorithms. A multidisciplinary team created a seamless, web-based tool that reorders content to move posts lower in a user’s feed when they contain antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity, such as advocating for violence or jailing supporters of the opposing party. In an experiment using ...

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Technology27 Nov 2025

More efficient aircraft engines: Graz University of Technology reveals optimization potential

With its “Flightpath 2050” strategy, the European Commission has outlined a framework for the aviation industry that aims to reduce emissions as well as fuel and energy consumption. Among other things, this requires more efficient engines. In the ARIADNE project, an interdisciplinary team at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) has created the basis for achieving the desired efficiency gains more quickly. To this end, the researchers have combined years of flow data on intermediate turbine ...

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Technology26 Nov 2025

Diamond defects, now in pairs, reveal hidden fluctuations in the quantum world

In spaces smaller than a wavelength of light, electric currents jump from point to point and magnetic fields corkscrew through atomic lattices in ways that defy intuition. Scientists have only ever dreamed of observing these marvels directly. Now Princeton researchers have developed a diamond-based quantum sensor that reveals rich new information about magnetic phenomena at this minute scale. The technique uncovers fluctuations that are beyond the reach of existing instruments and provides key insight into materials such as graphene and superconductors. Superconductors have enabled today’s most advanced medical imaging tools and form the basis of hoped-for technologies like lossless ...

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Technology26 Nov 2025

Do children imitate communication manners of machines? Experiment on children's response to polite vs. commanding robot

The presence of robots in schools is no longer surprising. How do elementary school children treat humanoid robots? Are they polite to them, and willing to attribute human-like qualities to them? Researchers from SWPS University have shown that in most cases, children treat robots politely, and younger children and girls are more likely to perceive them as possessing human-like qualities. The fourth edition of the international HumanTech Summit, organized at SWPS by the HumanTech Center, took place in Warsaw on November 20-22, 2025. Interactions with robots were among the topics discussed during ...

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Technology26 Nov 2025

HBNU researchers propose novel sensor-integrated wrapper for food quality monitoring and preservation

Food quality and safety are crucial. However, conventional food-monitoring methods, including ribotyping and polymerase chain reaction, tend to be destructive and lengthy. These shortcomings limit their potential for broad applications. In this regard, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensing, with real-time, non-destructive, and high sensitivity capabilities, is a highly promising alternative. In a new breakthrough, a team of researchers, led by Associate Professor Ji-Hwan Ha from the Department of Mechanical ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

University of Tennessee secures $1 million NSF grant to build semiconductor workforce pipeline

The University of Tennessee has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to prepare Tennessee’s high school students and teachers for careers in the rapidly growing semiconductor industry—one of the most critical sectors of the U.S. economy. The three-year project, Explorations: Tennessee Experiential Learning for Teachers and Students to Empower Pathways into Microelectronics, is funded through NSF’s Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) program. Led by the College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies (CECS) and in close partnership with Tickle College of Engineering’s (TCE) Min ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

AI tool helps visually impaired users ‘feel’ where objects are in real time

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Over the last few years, systems and applications that help visually impaired people navigate their environment have undergone rapid development, but still have room to grow, according to a team of researchers at Penn State. The team recently combined recommendations from the visually impaired community and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a new tool that offers support specifically tailored to the needs of people who are visually impaired. The tool, known as NaviSense, is a smartphone application that ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

It’s a bird, it’s a drone, it’s both: AI tech monitors turkey behavior

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — At a time when millions of Americans have turkey on their minds, a team of researchers led by an animal scientist at Penn State has successfully tested a new way for poultry producers to keep their turkeys in sight. Crucial for productivity and animal welfare, monitoring behavior and health of poultry animals on large, commercial farms is a costly, time-consuming and labor-intensive task. To help producers keep track of how the birds are behaving, the researchers tested a new method using a small drone equipped ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

Are developers prepared to control super-intelligent AI?

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The dream of an artificial intelligence (AI)-integrated society could turn into a nightmare if safety is not prioritized by developers, according to Rui Zhang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Zhang is the principal investigator on a project awarded $166,078 from Open Philanthropy to better mitigate sandbagging — attempting to look less capable or powerful — in AI models. While these systems go ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

A step toward practical photonic quantum neural networks

Machine learning models called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) power technologies like image recognition and language translation. A quantum counterpart—known as a quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN)—could process information more efficiently by using quantum states instead of classical bits. Photons are fast, stable, and easy to manipulate on chips, making photonic systems a promising platform for QCNNs. However, photonic circuits typically behave linearly, limiting the flexible operations that neural networks need. In a study published ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

How personalized algorithms lead to a distorted view of reality

The same personalized algorithms that deliver online content based on your previous choices on social media sites like YouTube also impair learning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when an algorithm controlled what information was shown to study participants on a subject they knew nothing about, they tended to narrow their focus and only explore a limited subset of the information that was available to them. As a result, these participants were often wrong when tested on the information they were supposed to learn – but were still overconfident in their incorrect answers. The ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

Pusan National University study reveals a shared responsibility of both humans and AI in AI-caused harm

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an integral part of our everyday lives and with that emerges a pressing question: Who should be held responsible, when AI goes wrong? AI lacks consciousness and free-will, which makes it difficult to blame the system for the mistakes. AI systems operate through complex, opaque processes in a semi-autonomous manner. Hence, even though the systems are developed and used by human stakeholders, it is impossible for them to predict the harm. The traditional ethical frameworks thus fail to explain who is responsible for these harms, leading to the so-called responsibility gap in AI ethics. A recent study by Dr. Hyungrae Noh, an Assistant ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

Nagoya Institute of Technology researchers propose novel BaTiO3-based catalyst for oxidative coupling of methane

Perovskites—a class of compounds with a unique ABX3 structure and high temperature stability—are promising materials for energy conversion. In recent years, they have been utilized in photovoltaic systems. They exhibit excellent performance in solid oxide fuel cells and organic reactions such as oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) for the production of ethane and ethylene. Notably, BaTiO3 is a promising perovskite with applications in fields including ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and semiconductivity. It possesses a flexible lattice and rich defect chemistry, making it suitable for structural modifications via doping for enhanced functional performance. Furthermore, ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

AI detects first imaging biomarker of chronic stress

CHICAGO – Using a deep learning AI model, researchers identified the first-of-its-kind biomarker of chronic stress detectable through routine imaging, according to research being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Chronic stress can affect both physical and psychological well-being, causing a variety of problems including anxiety, insomnia, muscle pain, high blood pressure and a weakened immune system, according to the American Psychological Association. Research shows that chronic stress can contribute to the development of major illnesses, such as heart ...

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Technology25 Nov 2025

AI quake tools forecast aftershock risk in seconds, study shows

Earthquake forecasting tools powered by AI can forecast the risk of aftershocks seconds after the initial tremor, a study suggests. Machine learning models have been developed that can forecast where, and how many, aftershocks will take place following an earthquake in close to real-time, researchers say. Current methods used to forecast aftershocks – secondary quakes that can prove more deadly than initial earthquakes – can take several hours or days, the team says. The rapid forecasts produced by AI-powered tools could help authorities with decision-making about public safety measures and resource allocation in disaster-hit areas. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, ...

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