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AI-enhanced project-based learning bridges STEM educational gaps in Africa

ECNU Review of Education
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in ECNU Review of Education explores how AI-enhanced project-based learning can bridge educational gaps in resource-limited STEM classrooms across Africa. Researchers trained educators from five nations using low-cost tools like smartphone coding and speech-to-text-to-image AI. The findings demonstrate that these accessible technologies empower teachers to transition from rote instruction to competency-based learning, fostering inclusive innovation and providing a scalable model for sustainable education reform in developing contexts.

Journal: ECNU Review of Education

Engaging young minds: Augmented reality helps children with STEM

Flinders University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Easy-to-use adaptive immersive technologies incorporating augmented reality (AR) can motivate learning, social engagement and cognitive development in early childhood, according to new research.

The Flinders University study found that innovative artificial intelligence-driven AR smart glasses – combined with group work, iPad exercises and other classroom activities – resulted in high levels of engagement and cohesive classroom behaviour when used to teach a science topic in an Australian junior primary school.

Journal: Journal of Science Education and Technology

HKU launches school of innovation to reimagine talent development for Hong Kong’s innovation future

The University of Hong Kong
Business Announcement

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) celebrated a major milestone in its innovation journey on 9 May 2026, with the “HKU School of Innovation Inaugural Celebration: A Dialogue with Future Innovators” held at Rayson Huang Theatre. The event commemorated the establishment of the HKU School of Innovation (I-School) and highlighted the transformative impact of its inaugural year, following the arrival of the first cohort of the Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Technology [BSc(I&T)] in September 2025.

Refugees reveal hidden trauma of life in the UK

University of East Anglia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

From relentless cycles of intrusive memories to loneliness and physical pain - a new study reveals the struggles of refugees who entered the UK as unaccompanied minors. Researchers interviewed refugees who fled Afghanistan as children and endured family separation, human rights abuses, and violence. Their stories show years of silent suffering, human resilience, and the need for social connection.

Journal: Transcultural Psychiatry

Low-performing organisations more likely to look outside for knowledge, study shows

University of Exeter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

People in low-performing organisations are more likely to look to others working elsewhere to access new knowledge and practices, a new study shows.

Journal: Public Management Review

Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a study published May 13, 2026 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Alisa Zubova of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS One

Prehistoric Danish people continued to eat fish and hunt even after the rise of agriculture

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and hunt too, according to a study published May 13, 2026 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Daniel Groß from the Museum Lolland-Falster, Denmark, Sofie Folsach Hellerøe from Aarhaus University, Denmark, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS One