Should schools allow AI systems that don't just answer students, but appear to care for them?
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ai-chatbots-simulate-students-alberta.html)
A new study by a doctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), part of The University of Alabama System, suggests global dust storms on Mars may organize the Martian atmosphere into regions favorable for electrical activity, increasing the potential for electrostatic disch...
Natural historians have many observational techniques in their toolkit for learning about the natural world: tagging animals with tracking devices, recording sounds, analyzing droppings or simply watching and counting. As technology has advanced, these methods have grown far more precise and wid...
Our accents give away more about social class than we think, according to new research led by Lancaster University. The new sociolinguistic study focusing on Mancunian accents, published in the journal, Language Variation and Change, shows that the final vowel in words like happy, baby, chilly a...
A NASA satellite has found an unintended, important purpose.
Using complex climate models, researchers have pinned down the point at which life will no longer be able to survive on Earth.
Sixty-two percent of Brits say they would feel pride if England won the World Cup, well above the number recorded in France but below Spain in the latest POLITICO Poll. Just 47 percent of Brits say they would feel pride if Scotland won the World Cup, which is convenient because Scotland is not g...