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ChatGPT seemed to “think on the fly” when put through an Ancient Greek maths puzzle

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge The experiment, by two education researchers, asked the chatbot to solve a version of the “doubling the square” problem – a lesson described by Plato in about 385 BCE and, the…

Articial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Education

Travel apps shift from volume to value in 2025

AI has helped many travel apps reduce friction, deliver more accurate searches, and provide sharper recommendations In 2025, travel apps have entered a new stage of maturity in which simply increasing downloads is no longer enough to dominate the market. What truly matters now is the value each user generates. Leading companies in the sector…

Pointing the way to climate resilience in south-east Europe

How effective are the nature-based solutions implemented in Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia? A new report compares their climate adaptation strategies, highlighting challenges and opportunities The EU-funded ARCADIA(opens in new window) project has published a report(opens in new window) comparing the effectiveness of nature-based solutions (NbSs) across the regions of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Centru (Romania) and Podravje…

Climate Adaptation, climate resilience, climatechange, Governance

The game that builds young people’s legal capability

Based on sadly all too common scenarios, a game co-designed by children and young people improves their legal rights knowledge to help keep them safe When it comes to protecting children from domestic harm, many children don’t speak up or hide the situation, because the abuse is normalised, to protect caregivers or out of fear.…

Education

Las Rozas begins the installation of nearly 1,800 photovoltaic panels across 15 additional public buildings

This is the second phase of the Energy Efficiency Plan, which will involve the total installation of more than 3,000 panels in 30 public buildings Las Rozas takes a new step on its way to a zero-emissions commitment with the start of work on the second phase of the Las Rozas Solar Plan, the ambitious…

energy efficiency, Las Rozas, Las Rozas Innova, Smart City, solar energy, Sustainability

When ‘good’ corporate governance creates incentives for bad behavior

Companies may find it more profitable to misbehave and suffer penalties rather than follow the rules In November 2018, a wildfire tore across Butte County in Northern California. The inferno engulfed homes, leveled the town of Paradise, and killed 85 people. Investigators discovered that aging and poorly maintained transmission lines operated by Pacific Gas &…

businesses, European Regulation, Governance

AirPods boost tourism with instant translation

With Live Translation, Apple is not only enhancing the user experience of its newest AirPods but also fulfilling a long-standing wish: the ability to converse naturally and almost instantly across languages Apple has just introduced a breakthrough that promises to change the dynamics of conversations between people who speak different languages: the Live Translation feature…

Accessibility, Apple, artificial intelligence

Pioneering new approaches to tackling chronic inflammation

A new generation of researchers have been trained to tackle chronic inflammation, a condition that impacts the lives of millions In response to an infection or physical injury, the human body often triggers an inflammation. At some point, this response needs to be shut down to avoid chronic inflammation, which can lead to persistent fatigue,…

Genetics, Medical Research, medicaltechnology, Smart health

Amid Record Heat and $320B in Disaster Losses, Leading Cities Opens QBE AcceliCITY Humanitarian Challenge 2025

The QBE AcceliCITY Humanitarian Challenge is a unique cross-sector collaboration between Australian Red Cross, QBE Foundation and Leading Cities, focused on scaling community-led solutions for climate resilience Communities are facing the sharpest rise in climate-driven emergencies in modern records: 2024 was confirmed as the warmest year on record (≈1.55°C above pre-industrial), global disaster losses reached…

Climate Change

Knowledge, capital and labour – networks of exchange

From early economic activity along the Silk Road to modern-day Brazil. What are the unexpected impacts of the movement of labour and the flow of capital? As the words ‘tariffs’, ‘economic growth’, ‘global trade’ and ‘sanctions’ fly around us, the economy and how markets are interlinked is something we are all growing more aware of.…