Growing backlogs in Education, Health and Care Needs Assessments (EHCNAs) are making it difficult for educational psychologists to prioritise early intervention because they are weighed down by statutory assessments.

Drs. Maria Glymour, Andrew Stokes, and Deborah Carr will lead the Boston University-Quantitative Population Science and Healthy Cognitive Aging Research Program (BU-SHARP) to foster national research collaboration on preventing and ameliorating the consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in disproportionately affected populations.

Previous research has suggested that overconfidence may also help children learn. Believing they can succeed, the theory goes, might encourage them to persist longer at difficult tasks and eventually see performance improvements. New research, however, suggests that this apparent learning advantage may be a statistical illusion.

Korea University College of Medicine and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have launched KUNIST, a comprehensive training platform aimed at developing globally competitive physician-scientists and biomedical researchers who will drive innovation in biomedicine.

COSPAR is happy to announce the winners of its 2026 Awards, to be presented during the 46^th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Florence, Italy. COSPAR bestows a number of medals and awards each year, some jointly with other institutions or space agencies. Scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to space research and who are working in any of the fields covered by COSPAR are eligible. The coveted COSPAR Awards are aimed at encouraging space science and exploration research and are an important step to achieve international cooperation in the field. This year’s nominees have come from a wide range of backgrounds and after careful consideration by the Awards Committee, Bureau, and partner organizations the following selection has been made.