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A new UK student-finance system will support shorter university and college modules, giving adults more options to study around employment and family life.
Animal trappers have cut short the two-week rampage of a monkey that randomly attacked 18 people on Sumatra island in Indonesia, prompting dozens of schools to close in fear. The animal, an adult long-tailed macaque, wounded 18 residents of
Edtech startup Imagi has closed a $4.5 million seed round, backing its push to help students learn how to build with AI-assisted coding tools.
A NASA-backed machine-learning model detected signals of emerging solar active regions up to 12 hours before sunspots became visible.
Psychologist Candice Odgers argues the debate over teenage smartphone use risks distracting from larger pressures on young people, including the legacy of Covid and the wellbeing of adult caregivers
Harry Kane says Thomas Tuchel will take lessons from England’s World Cup semi-final defeat to Argentina as the team turns to the Nations League
Twitch users learned that streams, clips, chats and channel media may train Amazon generative AI unless a creator disables the setting.
A volunteer has built a machine-learning tool for NASA-supported Space Cloud Watch to distinguish rare noctilucent clouds from lower-altitude look-alikes.
Grace Farris’s "See One, Do One, Teach One" looks at medical training through anxiety, debt, impostor syndrome, and the strain of balancing life and school.
Snap has agreed to a tentative settlement in a lawsuit over claims that social media platforms harm children and young adults, as more defendants exit the case
AI is moving beyond chatbots into toys, dolls and robots built to befriend children. A leading child-development expert says the technology offers real promise but also risks crowding out human relationships.

Astronaut photographs published by NASA show smoke surrounding Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as major fires affect air quality and communities.
PARIS — Generative artificial intelligence is making everyday tasks faster and easier, but a growing body of research is raising concerns that the same convenience could weaken the very mental skills people rely on

Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy Darius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and
Synthesia has launched Roleplay Sessions, a new enterprise training product that lets employees rehearse workplace conversations with AI avatars that respond, rate performance and generate analytics

The feared wave of mass unemployment caused by artificial intelligence has not appeared, but quieter changes to hiring and workplace tasks are already visible.

Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete From Homer’s Odyssey to Agatha Christie’s crime fiction, humans have produced plenty of tales to grace the bookshelf. But
Lionel Scaloni says Argentina’s players bring a fearless, freewheeling mentality shaped by childhood experiences as they move into the World Cup final
Iqbal Qasim's criticism of modern Pakistan cricketers has reopened a familiar but important debate about discipline, money, skill development and national pride. The story is useful for sports readers because
NPR’s Short Wave digs into the biology of birdsong, the deep history of avocados and what Egyptian warrior princesses can reveal about the

Pakistan's tour of England has descended into chaos, with a former team coach publicly accusing the country's chief selector of erratic, poorly communicated decision-making after a wave of sackings that followed two

Rich countries spend 41 times more on each child's education. AJLabs looks at the classroom inequality around the world
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced free online competitive-exam coaching and a plan to train 10 million young Indians in AI skills within a year.

On Monday, a small group of legislators in Muzaffarabad elected eight of their own colleagues to seats no voter had cast a ballot for. The PML-N took six of them, the PPP two, and a party that had held 25 seats found