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April 5, 2025

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Can Online Games Be an Effective Intervention to Help Adolescents Reduce Substance Abuse?

Mar. 19, 2025 — For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas often lack access to these services. A researcher is ...

AI-Based Math: Individualized Support for Schoolchildren

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed an AI-based learning system that recognizes strengths and weaknesses in mathematics by tracking eye movements with a webcam to generate problem-solving hints. This enables teachers to provide significantly more children ...

Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology

Feb. 26, 2025 — A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was made possible by real-time control of the force ...

School Bans Alone Not Enough to Tackle Negative Impacts of Phone and Social Media Use, Researchers Find

Feb. 5, 2025 — Students attending schools that ban the use of phones throughout the school day aren't necessarily experiencing better mental health and wellbeing, as the first worldwide study of its kind has found ...

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Study in India Shows Kids Use Different Math Skills at Work Vs. School

Feb. 5, 2025 — A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do ...

VR-Haptics-Enhanced Training Holds Potential to Transform Dental Education

Dec. 18, 2024 — A new comprehensive literature review of the benefits and challenges of integrating haptics-enhanced virtual reality training, or VR-haptics for short, in dental education curricula highlights the ...

Being Digitally Hyperconnected Causes 'Techno-Strain' for Employees

Dec. 17, 2024 — A new study has shown that employees are experiencing mental and physical techno-strain due to being 'hyperconnected' to digital technology making it difficult for people to switch off from ...

Young English Speakers Are Most Comfortable With Digital Health

Dec. 17, 2024 — Digital health tools, such as patient portals, treatment apps and online appointment schedulers, are increasingly common. But not everyone is equally at home using ...

Problems Developed Faster Among Gamers Who Started Early

Dec. 16, 2024 — People who started playing video games at an early school age developed problematic gaming more quickly compared to those who started playing a few years ...

Gaming for the Good!

Nov. 18, 2024 — It turns out gaming is good for you! New research indicates massive multiplayer online gamers learn by gaming and their skills in the workplace are enriched by those seemingly endless hours ...

Cash Is King: The Surprising Truth About Spending Habits in a Cashless World

Nov. 14, 2024 — Physical cash not only influences how much we spend but also fosters a profound sense of psychological ownership that digital payments cannot ...

Adapting GenAI for the Next Generation of Learning

Oct. 23, 2024 — A new study by learning analytics researchers presents key considerations for generative AI (GenAI) educational tools so they are carefully developed to support, rather than replace, human ...

Mental Health App Could Help Prevent Depression in Young People at High Risk

Oct. 8, 2024 — A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app has been found to significantly prevent increases in depression in young people who are at high risk -- and ...

Researchers Test ChatGPT, Other AI Models Against Real-World Students

Sep. 16, 2024 — An experiment tested six generative large language models against students in an online introductory biomedical and health informatics course. The models scored higher than as many as three quarters ...

A Simple Way to Boost Math Progress

Mar. 24, 2025 — Scientists investigated whether email interventions informed by behavioral science could help teachers help students learn ...

11 To 12-Year-Olds Use Smartphones Mainly to Talk to Family and Friends

Dec. 26, 2024 — A research group has analyzed the digital ecosystem of 11- to 12-year-old children across the Basque Autonomous Community, and concluded that two out of three own a smartphone. They use smartphones ...

Smartphone-Based Microscope Rapidly Reconstructs 3D Holograms

Sep. 11, 2024 — Researchers developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement ...

AI Food Tracking Apps Need Improvement to Address Accuracy, Cultural Diversity

Sep. 4, 2024 — A study has found that improved artificial intelligence (AI) training is required when developing nutrition apps that are used to track food intake or manage ...

Video Gaming Improves Mental Well-Being, Landmark Study Finds

Aug. 27, 2024 — A new study on the causal relationship between video gaming and mental well-being challenges commonly held views about the effects of ...

Swiping Through Online Videos Increases Boredom

Aug. 19, 2024 — Swiping through online videos to relieve boredom may actually make people more bored and less satisfied or engaged with the content, according to new ...

Redefining the Computer Whiz: Research Shows Diverse Skills Valued by Youth

Aug. 11, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered a more nuanced view of what makes an 'ideal' computer science student, challenging long-held stereotypes of geeky, clever, detail-oriented men, who lack social ...

Eye-Tracking Study Provides Valuable Insights Into Learning Mathematics

Aug. 2, 2024 — Eye-tracking allows studying aspects that cannot be seen, for example, the thinking processes of a student solving a mathematical problem. Researchers have integrated eye-tracking into education and ...

Chatbot Iris Offers Students Individual Support

July 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed the chatbot Iris, which offers informatics students personalized assistance with programming assignments. A study has now confirmed the chatbot's success: Iris ...

How Researchers Are Using Digital City-Building Games to Shape the Future

July 1, 2024 — Researchers have come up with exciting and sophisticated new mapping technology enabling future generations to get involved in creating their own future built landscape. They say that planners are ...

AI Generated Exam Answers Go Undetected in Real-World Blind Test

June 26, 2024 — Experienced exam markers may struggle to spot answers generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers have ...

Peers Crucial in Shaping Boys' Confidence in Math Skills

June 10, 2024 — Boys are good at math, girls not so much? A study has analyzed the social mechanisms that contribute to the gender gap in math confidence. While peer comparisons seem to play a crucial role for boys, ...

The AI Paradox: Building Creativity to Protect Against AI

May 30, 2024 — Cultivating creativity in schools is vital for a future driven by artificial intelligence (AI). But while teachers embrace creativity as an essential 21st century skill, a lack of valid and reliable ...

Cybersecurity Education Varies Widely in US

May 6, 2024 — Cybersecurity programs vary dramatically across the country, a review has found. The authors argue that program leaders should work with professional societies to make sure graduates are well trained ...

VR May Pose Privacy Risks for Kids: A New Study Finds Parents Aren't as Worried as They Should Be

May 6, 2024 — New research finds that, while an increasing number of minors are using virtual reality (VR) apps, not many parents recognize the extent of the security and privacy risks that are specific to VR ...

New Study Reveals How Teens Thrive Online: Factors That Shape Digital Success Revealed

May 3, 2024 — A new study sheds light on the role that new and traditional media play in promoting and affecting character development, emotions, prosocial behavior and well-being (aka happiness) in ...

Computer Game in School Made Students Better at Detecting Fake News

Apr. 24, 2024 — A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...

Hey Dave, I've Got an Idea for You: What's the Potential of AI-Led Workshopping?

Apr. 23, 2024 — Sure, ChatGPT can write a poem about your pet in the style of T.S Eliot, but generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have a potentially more useful role to play in idea generation according ...

Natural History Specimens Have Never Been So Accessible

Mar. 11, 2024 — Researchers have painstakingly taken computed topography (CT) scans of more than 13,000 individual specimens to create 3D images of more than half of all the world's animal groups, including ...

Maths: Smart Learning Software Helps Children During Lockdowns -- And Beyond

Feb. 27, 2024 — Intelligent tutoring systems for math problems helped pupils remain or even increase their performance during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from five ...