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Workshop shows Qatar entrepreneurs how AI can fast-track software, startup creation

Artificial intelligence-assisted tools have been instrumental in narrowing the gap between a startup idea and a working product, allowing founders and developers to build apps, websites, data tools, and business…

Science Centre Singapore to debut immersive ocean exhibition One Ocean: Every Action Ripples

The world-first exhibition at Science Centre Singapore will use 360-degree projections, virtual reality and interactive installations to bring two decades of ocean research to life.

Chief Judge Moore Commissions Bizarre AI Cartoon About The Federal Circuit Without Judge Newman

On Monday afternoon, I received an email from a PR firm that I thought was a fake. It began: Please see here for the fun Schoolhouse Rock-style cartoon theme song for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit…

Continuity and change: what Scotland’s elections means for universities

This blog was kindly authored by Lesley Jackson , Deputy Director, Universities Scotland. Last week’s Scottish election result managed to deliver both remarkable continuity and noteworthy change. Having secured 58 of…

New research enables a robot to chart a better course

In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs) could fly through a collapsed building to map the scene, giving rescuers information they need to quickly reach survivors. But this remains…

Snow City to close after 26 years, last day of operations will be Sept 30

The Science Centre said Snow City’s staff will be supported closely through this transition.

Korea turns to eco-friendly pesticides to combat surge of lovebugs

Korean forest researchers are accelerating field trials of eco-friendly pesticides to combat a massive surge of Plecia longiforceps — commonly known as lovebugs — that has swarmed mountains and residential areas near…

What Hong Kong can learn from the Yangtze’s conservation success

In February, a landmark study in the journal Science delivered rare good news for conservation: a five-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River had halted seven decades of biodiversity near-collapse. Fish biomass has…

Budget tightens school disability support

The federal government has announced a new “ safeguard ” around how funding is spent to support school students with disabilities. The budget papers say there is an issue with “ inaccurate claiming ” by schools and new…

What does misbehaviour really mean?

Classrooms across Australia are under more pressure than ever before, with teachers increasingly navigating complex behaviour challenges alongside already stretched workloads. But what if those behaviours are not…

The Guardian view on public health and the arts: Enter the all-singing, all-dancing science of aging

3 UW-affiliated graduate students among this year’s 30 Soros Fellows

Two current UW graduate students and one recent alumnus have been selected to receive the prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for Young Americans. Pictured here, from left to right: Daniel G. Chen, Briana…

Building UC Irvine

Before there were freeways leading to it, before the trees in Aldrich Park had grown over a person’s head, before anyone knew what UC Irvine might become, the people who would help build it were already at work –…

A different kind of classroom

In the early years of UC Irvine – when the campus felt more like open countryside than a research powerhouse – a small, unconventional school took root at the edge of campus. Known simply as the Farm School, it…

New $11M Effort Aims to Train Teachers in AI. How Does It Work?

The Computer Science Teachers Association launches the "AI PD Weeks" initiative.

Language development in the brain

The brain’s capacity to use and understand language expands rapidly in the first years of life, as babies start to make sense of the words they hear and eventually begin to piece together sentences of their own. The…

A bet that has paid off 500 million times over

In 2001, at the dawn of the digital age, MIT made a bold decision: to open its curriculum to the world. Through MIT OpenCourseWare — now part of MIT Open Learning — the Institute began sharing materials from nearly all…

Some early herders didn’t quit fishing and foraging for a millennium after first keeping livestock

A new study in PNAS has found the earliest herders in eastern Africa kept diverse diets for about a thousand years alongside herding cattle, sheep and goats. Led by UBC researcher Dr. Kendra Chritz alongside an…

UC Irvine, USC receive $2.6 million DARPA grant for AI to drive math breakthroughs

DARPA-funded research will examine how artificial intelligence can accelerate breakthroughs in mathematical research. Researchers from UC Irvine and USC will study AI tools in real-world research settings, working with…

Two Florida State University history graduates win statewide awards in historic preservation

Two Florida State University students from the Department of History have earned prestigious awards for their work in the identification, protection and rehabilitation of historic sites around the state of Florida.…