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Can virtual customers help students analyse real feedback?

AI is reshaping how students learn in the hospitality industry.

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How AI is Transforming Hospitality Education through Simulated Diners – The Science Matters
Can virtual customers help students analyse real feedback? Discover how AIRSim brings AI-driven feedback simulation into hospitality education.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Linguistic research into ‘Ask an Expert’ websites reveals that digital trust in science is fostered through the dialogic features of expert-reader interaction.
The Language of Credibility: How Digital Dialogue Builds Trust in Expert Communication – The Science Matters
Linguistic research into ‘Ask an Expert’ websites reveals that digital trust in science is fostered through the dialogic features of expert-reader interaction.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Where you live could determine how long you live. A new study by Rui Gong from Mercer University, published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, uncovers a chilling truth:

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Segregated Neighbourhoods are Shortening American Lives, New Study Warns – The Science Matters
Can where you live decide how long you live? New research links segregation with soaring death rates across the United States.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What happens when 1.8 billion users discuss the planet on TikTok?

In the age of short videos and scrolling feeds, environmental communication has found a new home on TikTok.
November 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Can artificial intelligence really help people grow?

Two studies led by Professor Jonathan Passmore of the @uniofreading.bsky.social reveal how AI coaching is transforming learning and development.
AI Coaches Reshape Personal Growth Worldwide – The Science Matters
Could an AI chatbot soon replace your career coach? A global review uncovers how artificial intelligence is redefining learning and performance.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Why are people so fascinated by ChatGPT?

A new study by Federico Mangiò at the Università degli Studi di Bergamo, published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, reveals how people make sense of complex technologies through shared stories and cultural metaphors.
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Why do some people reject climate science while others act? New research reveals how beliefs shape understanding and what this means for communication. By Connie Roser-Renouf, Teresa Myers and Edward Maibach.

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How Americans Think About Global Warming Climate Change – The Science Matters
Why do some people reject climate science while others act? New research reveals how beliefs shape understanding and what this means for communication.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Could the trees we call fast growers be underperforming in real forests? New research shows slower species may capture more carbon than expected. By Laurent Augusto and Marie Charru

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Why The World’s “Fastest-Growing” Trees May Be Slowing Our Climate Fight – The Science Matters
Could the trees we call fast growers be underperforming in real forests? New research shows slower species may capture more carbon than expected.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Can technology and nature work together for sustainable cities?

A new study by researchers from the University of Tabriz, published in GeoJournal, explores how Nature-Based Solutions can help cities expand sustainably while protecting biodiversity.
The Green Future of City Development Revealed – The Science Matters
Can technology and nature work together for sustainable cities? Learn how scientists modelled eco-smart urban growth using nature-based solutions.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Can a football tragedy reveal the true power of media influence? Discover how Liverpool reshaped politics when it turned away from a powerful tabloid. By Lucas Paulo da Silva, University of Zurich @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social

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How Liverpool’s Boycott of The Sun Changed Politics – The Science Matters
Can a football tragedy reveal the true power of media influence? Discover how Liverpool reshaped politics when it turned away from a powerful tabloid.
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October 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Can ordinary wood provide safe water at just 30 cents per month? Can this natural filter rival high-tech systems in tackling microbes and plastics? By Antoni Sánche Ferrer, Technical University of Munich @tum.de

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Nature’s Filter Wood Can Deliver CleanWater – The Science Matters
Can ordinary wood provide safe water at just 30 cents per month? Can this natural filter rival high-tech systems in tackling microbes and plastics?
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October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
What happens when science and morality collide? Discover how Oppenheimer’s creation changed the world and the scientist who lived with the consequences.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Man Who Invented The Atomic Bomb And Lived With The Consequences – The Science Matters
What happens when science and morality collide? Discover how Oppenheimer’s creation changed the world and the scientist who lived with the consequences.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Can engineers really be shareholders of their ideas? China’s new system shows how shared property rights may transform capitalism from within. By Cao Shixiong, Minzu University of China

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How China’s New Ownership Model Could Redefine Capitalism – The Science Matters
Can engineers really be shareholders of their ideas? China’s new system shows how shared property rights may transform capitalism from within.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
How did one of the world’s safest planes crash in 90 seconds? A closer look at the science, sensors, and split-second decisions behind.

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The Deadly Descent Of Air India Flight AI171 – The Science Matters
How did one of the world’s safest planes crash in 90 seconds? A closer look at the science, sensors, and split-second decisions behind
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October 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Twitter fans forced clubs to drop the ESL in 48 hours. What does this teach us about the power of collective voices in sport and beyond? By Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Bergamo University
October 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Can this new mass spectrometer revolutionise our understanding of complex biomolecules? A Taiwanese lab may have just reshaped molecular science. By Avinash Adhikrao Patil, National Dong Hwa University
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Could sewage and alum sludge hold the answer to safer fertilisers? Learn how new methods are recovering phosphorus without harmful heavy metals. By Satya Tiwari

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Alum Sludge Revolutionises Phosphorus Recovery - The Science Matters
Could sewage and alum sludge hold the answer to safer fertilisers? Learn how new methods are recovering phosphorus without harmful heavy metals.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Long before modern sustainability, Inca farmers tamed the Andes. Could their water-wise terraces and llamas show us how to farm in a changing climate? By Alex Chepstow Lusty, @sussex.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Could sewage and alum sludge hold the answer to safer fertilisers? Learn how new methods are recovering phosphorus without harmful heavy metals.

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Alum sludge revolutionises phosphorus recovery – The Science Matters
Could sewage and alum sludge hold the answer to safer fertilisers? Learn how new methods are recovering phosphorus without harmful heavy metals.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
How did surgery evolve from herbal cures to AI-driven robots in ENT? Discover the fascinating journey of medicine from ancient papyrus to nanotech. By Sanjay Kumar
October 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences honours Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress. @northwesternu @brownu @londonschoolofeconomics
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October 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize honours Venezuela’s unyielding defender of democracy, whose courage has rekindled hope amid authoritarian darkness.

Her voice was heard around the world as the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Machado as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize,
October 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This year, the Swedish Academy awarded László Krasznahorkai the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The chemistry laureates, Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University ), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne), and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley), were honoured “for the development of metal–organic frameworks”.

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The Architects Of Empty Space: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries In Metal-Organic Frameworks – The Science Matters
What if invisible materials could store hydrogen or trap pollutants? Meet the Nobel winners who built chemistry’s most powerful frameworks.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University and University of California Santa Barbara), and John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara)
From Atoms To Circuits: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries Showing How Quantum Physics Leapt To Human Scale – The Science Matters
How can a simple circuit behave like a giant quantum particle? Explore the Nobel 2025 discovery that brings quantum mechanics to human scale.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM