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Students benefit from personalised teaching, educators can focus on pedagogical tasks, and the system becomes more efficient

In its first instalment, it showed Tatooine, a planet with two suns. Thirty-five years later, Kepler-16b was discovered orbiting two red stars

Science progresses too fast for most people to follow, and it reaches results, facts and theories, and applications that are often too bewildering and counter-intuitive

Most people do not even realise what data they are providing, let alone tweak their settings to prevent personal information from being used

Youngsters should be taught to analyse data critically as well as avoid biases and reasoning fallacies so that they can be positive and at the same time critical

Knowledge of more than one language and visiting other countries offer have important health benefits

If immediate steps are not taken to curb the problems posed by plastic waste and artificial intelligence, they could have a devastating effect

Governments need to act fast to slow down climate change: invest more in clean energy technologies, energy conservation and efficiency

Science literacy is increasingly linked to economic growth and is necessary for finding solutions 
to complex social and environmental problems

Within a decade or two, every aspect of our lives will have been impacted by nanotechnology at deeper levels and in more amazing ways

Students must be taught as part of the critical thinking tool set and skills to navigate the digital world in safe ways

When you post something, ask yourself whether you’d say it in the face of someone. If you wouldn’t, then don’t post it