Video game hub Japan confronts problem of addiction
From Super Mario to Final Fantasy, Japan has long been synonymous with gaming, but some experts and parents fear a growing addiction problem is going unaddressed.
Dec 13, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Soil-powered fuel cell promises cheap, sustainable water purification
Engineers at the University of Bath have shown that it's possible to capture and use energy created by the natural reactions occurring in microorganisms within soil.
Oct 28, 2020
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Robotics
Why R2-D2 could be your child's teacher sooner than you think
C-3P0, R2-D2 and Wall-E: three distinctly memorable robots that captured our hearts as they rolled and beeped across the silver screen.
Oct 17, 2018
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Robots benefit special education students
Researchers at the University of Twente have discovered that primary school children in both regular and special needs schools make strides when they learn together with a robot. On 30 April, both Daniel Davison and Bob Schadenberg ...
Apr 21, 2021
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Child's play: Coding booms among Chinese children
Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a red T-shirt, an eight-year-old Chinese boy is logged in for an online coding lesson—as the teacher.
Dec 10, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Virtual reality training could reduce gender gap in some spatial tasks
Finding out why men and women perform differently in some tasks is a matter of controversy with no scientific consensus. One of the areas under study is that of visuospatial abilities, where a number of studies have shown ...
Nov 28, 2023
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