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12-Nov-2025

AI can deliver personalized learning at scale, study shows

Dartmouth College
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Dartmouth study finds that AI can deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are among the first to report that students may put more trust in platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, but also highlight challenges educators may face in implementing generative AI chatbots.

Journal: npj Digital Medicine

12-Nov-2025

AI’s energy usage is less than previously thought

University of Waterloo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Contrary to popular belief, new research finds that the use of artificial intelligence has a minimal effect on global greenhouse gas emissions and may actually benefit the environment and the economy.

For their study, researchers from the University of Waterloo and the Georgia Institute of Technology combined data on the U.S. economy with estimates of AI use across industries to determine the environmental fallout if AI use continues its current trajectory.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters

12-Nov-2025

Between laptops and ladles: Working from home as a test case for gender equality

University of Konstanz
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz and King’s College London shows that working from home can make the division of household and care work between men and women more balanced – but only in families with progressive gender role attitudes.

Journal: European Sociological Review

12-Nov-2025

High-performance computing in Paderborn: new ‘Otus’ supercomputer put into operation

Universität Paderborn
Business Announcement

A computer that can calculate hundreds of scientific tasks simultaneously and thus helps provide a solution to key social challenges: this is the new IT heart of Paderborn University. The ‘Otus’ supercomputer was put into operation at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) on Monday 10 November. From now onwards, researchers all over Germany can use it to run challenging computer simulations and conduct scientific enquiry at the highest level.

12-Nov-2025

Research study suggests speaking more languages might keep you younger

Trinity College Dublin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international study led by Dr. Agustín Ibáñez, Trinity College Dublin and his co-authors Lucia Amoruso, BrainLat and Hernán Hernández, BrainLat, reveals that speaking multiple languages may slow the biological processes of aging and protect against age-related decline.

Journal: Nature Aging

11-Nov-2025

New research reveals path to sustainable rice farming in Myanmar

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have identified practical fertilizer strategies that can help rice farmers in Myanmar boost their profits, protect the environment, and improve food security. Recent research, led by an international team including experts from the University of Melbourne and local partners, provides new recommendations for nitrogen fertilizer use, aiming for a balance between high yields and low environmental costs.

11-Nov-2025

Monk seal acoustic breakthrough: Hawai’i study quadruples known call types and detects novel communication strategy

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa analyzed thousands of hours of passive acoustic data and identified 25 distinct underwater vocalizations, a dramatic increase from the six calls previously known from seals in human care.

Journal: Royal Society Open Science