Science News for Students

I search the internet daily for new articles from around the world that interest me or I think will interest you. No paywalls or clickbait. My hope is that it saves you time or helps students with their assignments.

• College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be from The Conversation

• ASU students explore role of AI in future of work and society in Japan from ASU News

• Does it matter if students do tests on computers or on paper? from Phys.org

• Stranded student helps design synthetic polymers to combat fungal infections from Phys.org

• AI pioneers want bots to replace human teachers – here’s why that’s unlikely from The Conversation

• Students design cooking robots from CTV

• 8 ways to visit the beach like a scientist from Stanford University

• Kids need better tech education to thrive in a digital world from Australian National Unviersity

• Robots, drones, virtual reality: WeCode KC gives kids the chance to explore STEAM from KCTV5

• 5 thoughts for new college grads seeking to find the right balance between meaningful work and making money from The Conversation

• VR Poses Privacy Risks for Kids. A New Study Finds Parents Aren’t as Worried as They Should Be. from NC State University

• PhD grad’s work integrates science, technology and society to promote just futures from Arizona State University

• ‘What is a fact?’ A humanities class prepares STEM students to be better scientists from The Conversation

• Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI’s ethical challenges? from The Conversation

• Introducing Biomechanics to New Generations from University of Delaware

• AI program creates personal chatbots for students from CBS8

• Meta wants to put students and teachers in Quest VR headsets from Axios

• ASU researcher successfully launches protein crystals into space from Arizona State Unversity

• ‘Let’s talk about it:’ Geosciences students on publishing research from Colorado State University

• How I found my research: Jennoa Fleming studies the small wonders of the rock pools to understand our future on Earth from Virginia Commonwealth University

• Biomedical Sciences club brings STEM activities to elementary students from Oklahoma State University

• The sky’s the limit from UCI News

• How do airplanes fly? An aerospace engineer explains the physics of flight from The Conversation

• Unlocking the Future: High School Students Dive into Cutting-Edge Technologies from Boise State University

• With Generative AI we can reimagine education — and the sky is the limit from World Economic Forum

• A degree in artificial intelligence: Penn becomes first Ivy to offer AI major for undergrads from USA Today

• AI helps students skip right to the good stuff in this intro programming course from The Conversation

• Computer Science Students Say: Let’s Talk About Microaggressions from Duke University

• AI can help − and hurt − student creativity from The Conversation

• Hyundai Future Adventure Roblox experience website

• How ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves from The Conversation

• Using AI to pinpoint hidden sources of clean energy underground from Ohio State University

• 1 Hour Space Mission Experience For Schools and Groups Tetrastar Spaceport National Space Centre video

• Google is giving teens around the world access to its Bard AI chatbot from Engadget

• Generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, is changing higher education—and the world. from illinois State Magazine

• USU students share personal science stories from The Utah Statesman

• This high school project can detect disease in fish from CBC

• What do AI chatbots really mean for students and cheating? from Stanford University

• Kids embrace science at Hands-On Expo from University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Microphone check − 5 ways that music education is changing from The Conversation

• STEM projects at NASA from NASA

• How to create a college internship where students actually learn − and don’t want to quit from The Conversation

• The Spark Squad comic book follows middle school students as they learn about water power technologies from energy.gov

• 5 ways that college campuses benefit from diversity, equity and inclusion programs from The Conversation

• Students Bring Artwork to Life With Artificial Intelligence from CSUF

• Schools are teaching ChatGPT, so students aren’t left behind from CTV

• Paper exams, chatbot bans: Colleges seek to ‘ChatGPT-proof’ assignments from Associated Press

• Good vibrations: MSU physicists help bolster quantum computing from Michigan State University

• Students create robots with baseball skills for competition at Chase Field from azfamily.com

• This Wi-Fi-Connected Graduation Cap Displays Custom Messages from hackster.io

• Virtual reality prepares Ohio State students for real world from Ohio State News

• How can I make studying a daily habit? from The Conversation

• High school students learn the basics of base editing to cure GFP-itis from EurekAlert

• 4 ways that AI can help students from The Conversation

• From farm to lunchroom table: These students are doing more than just growing lettuce from CBC

• Student uses NASA-supplied simulated lunar soil to 3D print out-of-this-world housing from FIU

• For some, it’s only when school stops that learning starts from Aeon Essays

• ‘Genetic engineering is unethical’: Warwick students debate from The Boar

• Virtual reality shows new ways of teaching from The Collegian

• The Winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair from Gizmodo

• 3 things the pandemic taught us about inequality in college — and why they matter today from The Conversation

• What could the school of 2050 look like? from BBC Science Focus

• Reading and Dyslexia research online game from Stanford University

• Students show their vision at Future City Competition from CBS News

• Are teachers ready for the rise of Artificial Intelligence? from Spartan Newsroom

• 5 ways pressuring young athletes to perform well does them harm from The Conversation

• An online game to investigate the shapes of letters from Max Planck Society

• Heat Ready Schools project helps schools keep students safe during extreme heat from Yale Climate Connections

• A kid's guide to climate change in comics from NPR

• The school where children make the rules and learn what they want to learn from Aeon

• A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay from NPR

• Former math teacher explains why some students are ‘good’ at math and others lag behind from The Conversation

• Robotics Research News from Northeastern

• Test Your Trivia Knowledge for Science from Nautilus

• A teen's cancer is in remission after she received new cells edited with CRISPR from Live Science

• ‘Artificial intelligence has dangerous implications’: Warwick students debate from The Boar

• Do students really eat that badly? from BBC Future

• How can you tell if something is true? Here are 3 questions to ask yourself about what you see, hear and read from The Conversation

• Understanding the Cell: The Elementary Building Block From Which Life Emerges from Singularity Hub

• The Best College Science and Tech Programs from Gizmodo

• Seventh graders design challenge using the LEGO robotics kits from Punahou School

• Atoms: What are they and how do they build the elements? from Space.com

• A Future Engineer at Age 17 May Have Invented an Electric Motor to Transform the Transportation Industry from 21st Century Tech Blog

• 5 challenges of doing college in the metaverse from The Conversation

• One way to help college students get enough sleep – pay them to go to bed from The Conversation

• Teenager Designs Futuristic Electric Motor Without Magnets That Could Transform The EV Industry from Wonderful Engineering

• Science Students Put Concepts into Practice from UMass Lowell

• NASA Leaders Surprise Students With First Look at Artemis Rocket and Orion Spacecraft video

• With roommates, it's all about chemistry, molecularly speaking from Phys.org

• Should We Be Concerned About Google AI Being Sentient? from News at Northeastern

• ‘Don’t work for climate wreckers’ UN chief tells graduates, in push to a renewable energy future from UN News

• Quantum leap for student computing team from University of Victoria

• MIT’s FutureMakers programs help kids get their minds around — and hands on — AI from MIT News

• A new approach to robotics from Arizona State University

• UQ research to keep batteries going and going from The University of Queensland

• What Can I Do with My Life Science Degree? from Biospace

• How Bear Lake robotics students learn career, life skills through the program from Manistee News Advocate

• Fly your name around the Moon! from NASA Artemis

• Student robotics team wins patent on invention to help pets communicate from WISN

• College could take place in the metaverse, but these problems must be overcome first from The Conversation

• How many stars are there in space? from The Conversation Curious Kids

• Robotics competition brings students from U.S., Canada to Lambeau Field from WEAU News

• AFS posted Young gene editors share hopes for the future of the field

• For bullied teens, online school offered a safe haven from The Conversation

• Could virtual reality field trips be the future of geography? from Tes Magazine

• Penn State posted A giant leap for immersive learning: Creating a virtual reality classroom

• Biology students explore CRISPR in the lab from Cornell College

• 10 Tips for Telling Fact From Fiction from HowStuffWorks

• Future Engineers posted NASA Techrise Student Challenge winners

• Science News posted This crumb-sized camera uses artificial intelligence to get big results

• The future of agriculture from The Varsity

• Stanford University posted Researchers are using artificial intelligence to create better virtual reality experiences

• Electricity: The Energy Of Electrons student produced retro video

• Middle school students send a mini satellite to space with help from ORNL mentors video

• Build Your Future With Google student and travel scholarships

• PEMDAS: The Easy Way to Remember Math's Order of Operations from HowStuffWorks

• Introduction to the Human Brain MIT OpenCourseWare video

• Fermilab following clues to unravel the latest mysteries of the universe from Northwestern University

• Students build air purifiers for wildfire smoke victims video

• This is MIT video

• Gates Notes posted Free Climate eBook for college and university students

• Let's Talk About Minerals! video

• Popular Science posted How to tell science from pseudoscience

• STEM Dancing! video

• Design student's concept for search and rescue device video

• Daily Press posted NASA wants to harvest water on moon and Mars, and Virginia Tech team thinks it can help

• Florida college says chatbot brought back near-grads with humor, advice from EdScoop

• How many stars are there in space? from The Conversation Curious Kids

• Florida International University posted Could a little tough love help corals adapt to climate change?

• CNN posted These game-changing student experiments could help humans travel across deep space

• Kids AskAnExpert: Life on Mars (SciFri Live Zoom Call-in) video

• The Conversation posted 5 characteristics of an effective science teacher – from a researcher who trains them

• Revolutionizing Student Experiences at Notre Dame with 3D printing video

• The University of Texas at Austin posted Ethical Artificial Intelligence is Focus of New Robotics Program

• ETH Zurich student team competing in Elon Musk's Not-A-Boring-Competion video

• The University of Texas at Dallas posted Design Teams Hone Takedown Skills in Drone Challenge

• We all have the power to shape the future of technology from Stanford University

• Forget cramming, ditch the highlighter, and stop passively rereading. The psychology of learning offers better tactics. from Psyche

• Let’s learn about artificial intelligence from Science News for Students

• My Top 5 Slime Recipes video

• Emory University posted students advance artificial intelligence with a bot that aims to serve humanity

• Singularity Hub posted Why Bother Calculating Pi to 62.8 Trillion Digits? It’s Both Useless and Fascinating

• There's science inside your ice cream, and it tastes delicious Scientific American video

• How to Blow a Balloon Underwater simple science experiment video

• The Advocate posted Robotic arm designed by LSU students aims to automate strenuous work of crawfish harvesting

• University Students Compete For $1 million High-Speed Autonomous Race video

• Science and X-ray photography from young South Australians from Cosmos Magazine

• The Conversation posted 4 ways college students can make the most of their college library

• 20 amazing home experiments video

• 12 Study Habits to Adopt Now - Study Tips Socratica video

• Diving into the future: students getting certified in underwater robotics from Panama City News Herald

• Ten architecture projects from students at the University of Oregon College of Design from Dezeen

• Exoskeletons have a problem: They can strain the brain from Ohio State News

• Gaming graphics card allows faster, more precise control of fusion energy experiments from University of Washington

• Students Win First Ever Canadian CanSat Competition video

• Student Perspectives: Choosing a College for Postgraduate International Students Cambridge University video

• ZDNet posted Best computer science scholarship 2021: Top picks

• On the Cutting Edge: USC at the Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) Conference from USC Viterbi

• Meet Alexandra—Teenage Science Olympian from HerCanberra

• Mind blowing facts students learn at Cambridge video

• NASA TechRise Student Challenge Kick-Off Event video

• VR allowing medical students to see and learn through patients’ eyes from KWCH12

• Junior Astronaut Camp participants Canadian Space Agency video

• MIT news posted A graduate student who goes to extremes

• 2021 Redford Center Stories Film Awards middle school students submit short films about the environment contest winners video

• The Future of Things posted 5 Websites to Use When Writing Your Dissertation

• The Conversation posted To navigate the dangers of the web, you need critical thinking – but also critical ignoring

• Live Science posted A student's physics project could make quantum computers twice as reliable

• Ohio State University posted DNA robots designed in minutes instead of days

• MSU Today posted To intervene or not to intervene? That is the future climate question

• Stanford students work to demystify quantum computing for high schoolers from The Stanford Daily

• Teenager's astrophotography stars in science celebration from BBC News

• Ksnt.com posted a video Local students learn problem solving skills through robotics

• The Life of Computer Science Grad Students at MIT CSAIL video

• ASU News posted How 'food security' is quickly becoming national security

• Science you should know about in 2021 from Varsity

• University of Richmond's Spider Solar Project Goes Live

• Qrius posted Knowledge is power: why the future is not just about the tech

• What is a protein? A biologist explains (2:42) video

• Scout AI - Smart and Educational Robot video

• University Tests Robotic Smart Dogs For Myriad Of Opportunities video on CBS News Los Angeles

• Ohio State News posted Using artificial intelligence to find new uses for existing medications

• Why Does Fall Smell So good? science video

• Campaign to Stop Killer Robots video

• 3D print your own Mars rover with ExoMy ESA video

• How MIT computer scientists got to MIT video

• The Guardian writes Coding the future: the tech kids solving life’s problems

• The Conversation posted 4 tips for college students to avoid procrastinating with their online work

• A NASA video shows How To Make Your Own Falcon 9 Straw Rocket

• Xprize posted an article about the experience of being a young changemaker

• Doane Stuart School: Investigating the Strength of Different Types of Tape: A Real Lab Experiment video (2:56)

• Penn State News article about Students practicing teaching through a virtual reality system

• From The College Voice, Connecticut College’s Independent Student Newspaper, an article titled Are Genetically Modified (GM) Mosquitoes the Answer? about a biotechnology company's plan to release GM mosquitos in Florida

• Space Curious: The questions we ask (and forget) to ask astronauts is a local news story and podcast on ClickOrlando.com

• One simple idea on how students can help save the environment on The New Mexico Daily Lobo

• Young innovators ages 10-18 across the globe are invited to create new fun games with the Global Game Making Challenge

• The Varsity, University of Toronto's student newspaper, posted What exactly are stem cells? The buzzword explained

• University Of Wyoming Team Trains Rehab Robots (exoskeletons) To Help With Physical Therapy

• TNW posted A beginner’s guide to the math that powers machine learning

• To break monotony of remote learning, Rutgers built virtual worlds - edscoop.com

• Blast off with NASA STEM - Youtube

• Researchers succeed in using liquid hydrogen for UAV test - wsu.edu

• What If Your Teacher Were AI? - Youtube

• Science explained in 5 levels of difficulty, child, teen, college student, grad student, expert - Youtube

• Climate Action Project: international students collaborate on climate change topics - climate-action.info

• How a teen changed his stepdad's mind about global warming - yaleclimateconnections.org

• Robots to the rescue - uci.edu

• Student enjoys being at the forefront of discovery - miami.edu

• The future of education or just hype? The rise of Minerva, the world's most selective university - theguardian.com

• Indian teenagers discover asteroid near Mars moving toward Earth - usatoday.com

• Sparking girls’ interest in computing through ‘social wearables’ - ucsc.edu

• 7 climate-conscious citizen science projects to participate in this summer and fall - yaleclimateconnections.org

• This teenager has a plan to mobilize young people everywhere - weforum.org

• Using STEM skills to make the world a better place - nbcdfw.com

• New Technique Allows 3D Printing of Flexible Materials - ucdavis.edu

• University of Pennsylvania RoboCup team - Youtube

• Ancient Records Suggest Future Declines in Tropical Oceans - uconn.edu

• Plant science discovery may help treat allergies and immune deficiencies - tamu.edu

• Questions about careers in space exploration - Youtube

• Can technology improve student wellness and retention? - bdtechtalks.com

• Google's Change the Game Design Challenge 2020 for girls - google.com

• Are Tutor Computers The Future of Algebra and Grammar Lessons? - technologynetworks.com

• Staying Sane With STEM - How to Build a Catapult from a Cardboard Box - Youtube

• What makes the wind? - theconversation.com

• Student to Student: Artificial intelligence/machine learning - rit.edu

• Students help turn recycled cooking oil into fuel - wltx.com

• New York teen discovers new planet while interning with NASA - abcnews

• 5G and Wi-Fi 6: What’s the Difference, and Where Do They Belong on Campus? - edtechmagazine.com

• Science Fair Blind Spot Project - Youtube

• This Student Is One of the Top Scientists Studying Faster-Than-Light Warp Drives - vice.com

• Are We Pressuring Students to Choose a Hostile STEM? - insidehighered.com

• 1 in 5 college students takes math courses that repeat what they already know - theconversation.com

• For future biomedical researcher, undergraduate scholarship was vote of confidence - uci.edu

• Rice reactor turns greenhouse gas into pure liquid fuel - eurekalert.org

• Short physics schools have outsized impact on the careers of scientists from Latin America - symmetrymagazine.org

• College rankings might as well be student rankings - theconversation.com

• 5 tips for college students to avoid burnout - theconversation.com

• My Internship with Air and Space Smithsonian Magazine - news.fiu.edu

• How to create a better research poster in less time - Youtube

• Tempted to cheat on a written exam? Artificial intelligence is 90% certain to nab you - EurekAlert

• Some scientists ask for ban on the gene editing of babies - Science News

• GMOs are not as scary as they seem - The Orion

• These teens have some ideas for stopping climate change - Science News

• How two Clemson computer science graduate students are changing the game - The TandD

• A Child Explains Why He Built a Nuclear Reactor in His Playroom - Motherboard

• Fuelling the future - Royal Society of Chemistry

• How tree rings help teach us about our climate - Yale Climate Connections

• Curious Kids: where did the first seed come from? - The Conversation

• The problem with genetically modified food - The Santa Fe New Mexican

• Before Zero Hour: How this teen was inspired to join the climate movement - Yale Climate Connections