Job dissatisfaction and pursuing additional degrees were the leading reasons that nurses left their roles a few years into the pandemic, according to a new study published in the journal Health Affairs Scholar. 

The findings point to actionable strategies that employers can use—such as flexible or non-traditional scheduling—to improve job satisfaction, work-life balance, and curb costly turnover.

Smartphones, online learning, generative AI: the way we read has changed more in the last decade than in the previous century. So what do we actually know about what reading does for the mind? In his new book, Falk Huettig, Senior Investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, brings together research spanning psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education to answer that question. The result is a systematic account of how literacy reshapes memory, attention, language processing, and reasoning - and even abilities readers might not expect, like face recognition.

Wildfire smoke can trigger breathing problems and flare-ups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet many people are not receiving the trusted health information they need to stay safe, according to a new study in the May 2026 issue of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, a peer-reviewed, open access journal.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has solidified its position in the highest echelons of global higher education, securing the 11th spot globally for the second year running in the QS World University Rankings 2027, announced by the global higher education analytics organisation Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) on 18 June. By retaining this historic high, HKU firmly cements its standing as a premier institution both globally and locally, leading the city’s higher education sector as a beacon of academic excellence and global impact.

The Robert A. Winn Clinical Investigator Pathway Program has launched its fifth annual cohort, placing 80 medical students at 18 leading research institutions across the country for immersive summer experiences in clinical research, mentorship, and community engagement. Find out where they are right now across the nation!

A Hiroshima University-led study conducted with Rakuten Securities finds that practical digital skills, positive financial attitudes, and self-protection are more consistently associated with lower old-age anxiety than traditional financial knowledge alone.

Developing students' social and emotional skills is an important priority for both researchers and practitioners worldwide. A new study using data from the SSES 2023 student survey on Social and Emotional Skills has found that students' perceptions of teacher feedback vary across different groups of learners. The study also shows that all types of teacher feedback were positively associated with the five domains of student social and emotional skills (i.e., task performance, emotional regulation, engaging with others, open-mindedness, and collaboration), and that the teacher–student relationship played a mediating role in these associations.