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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 18-Jun-2025 04:10 ET (18-Jun-2025 08:10 GMT/UTC)

14-May-2025

Purdue ECE students shatter Guinness World Record for fastest puzzle cube-solving robot

Solving a Rubik’s Cube is a challenge for most people. For a team of students from Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, it became an opportunity to redefine the limits of speed, precision and automation—and officially make history.

14-May-2025

Developers, educators view AI harms differently, research finds

Cornell University
Reports and Proceedings

Cornell researchers have found the developers of LLM tools and the educators who use them have different ideas about the potential harms they may cause, a finding that researchers say underscores the need for educators to be more involved in the tools’ development.

13-May-2025

UTA course gives pre-health students clinical edge

University of Texas at Arlington
Business Announcement

A new collaboration at The University of Texas at Arlington is offering pre-health students valuable hands-on experience. This semester, UT Arlington students in SCIE 4304: The Art of Diagnosing Disease in Humans, an advanced science course, participated in an immersive clinical simulation lab at the UTA Smart Hospital. The simulation lab is a joint effort by the College of Science, College of Nursing and Health Innovation and UTA Libraries.

13-May-2025

Coogle receives funding for school based preschool technical assistance sessions

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Christan Coogle, Associate Professor of Special Education and Early Childhood Special Education, College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), received $12,000 from the Virginia Department of Education for “School Based Preschool Technical Assistance Sessions.” Funding began in Feb. 2025 and will end in late June 2025.

Funder: Virginia Department of Education

13-May-2025

Increase in post-traumatic symptoms in deploying reservists during the iron swords war

Tel-Aviv University
Reports and Proceedings

Recent reports indicate burnout among IDF reservists, some of whom have served in multiple combat rounds, for extended periods of time. While reserve duty turnout exceeded 100% at the beginning of the war, current reports show a decline to 75%-85%. Several reasons have been suggested for this drop, such as: harm to reservists' employment and livelihood; negative impact on their families and social lives;

13-May-2025

New survey shows privacy and safety tops list of parental concerns about screen time

Nationwide Children's Hospital
Reports and Proceedings

As kids spend more time on screens, a new national survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of The Kids Mental Health Foundation, founded by Nationwide Children’s Hospital, identifies parents’ greatest fears for their children around screen time.

12-May-2025

Patients of an online obesity clinic achieved the same weight loss as those in clinical trials of semaglutide – but with much lower doses of the drug

European Association for the Study of Obesity
Reports and Proceedings

*Please mention the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14) if using this research*

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) has found that patients of an online obesity clinic achieved similar weight loss to that reported in clinical trials – but with less than half the medication. The study is to be published in the journal The Lancet Digital Health.

Meeting: European Congress on Obesity (ECO2025)