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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 30-Jun-2025 17:10 ET (30-Jun-2025 21:10 GMT/UTC)

30-Jun-2025

Fact or fiction? The ADHD info dilemma

Syracuse University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Syracuse University psychologists conducted a study exploring how misinformation about ADHD spread through TikTok affects college-age individuals’ knowledge and perception of the disorder.

Journal: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

30-Jun-2025

Four-day school week may not be best for students, review finds

University of Oregon
Reports and Proceedings

A new University of Oregon review of 11 studies found little evidence that the four-day school week benefits student academic performance, attendance, behavior or graduation rates.

30-Jun-2025

Legislation not the ‘silver bullet’ in fight against barbaric practices

Lancaster University
Reports and Proceedings

The report, ‘Legislative Approaches to Addressing Harmful Practices Related To Witchcraft Accusations and Ritual Attacks: A Global Review’, is launched this evening (June 30) at Doughty Street Chambers in London.

30-Jun-2025

Global first in surgical training: SURGhub reaches record 19,000 healthcare workers across 190 countries — meeting soaring demand in underserved regions

RCSI
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Marking a major milestone in the fight to close the global surgical education gap - which leaves 93% of people in sub-Saharan Africa and millions more worldwide without access to safe surgical care when needed - a ground-breaking e-learning platform has brought the classroom directly to the homes and clinics of more than 19,000 healthcare workers across 190 countries in just two years.

Journal: World Journal of Surgery

30-Jun-2025

European high school students emerge from isolation after groundbreaking explore analog space exploration mission

International Science Council Committee on Space Research
Business Announcement

MONSARAZ, PORTUGAL – 30 June 2025 – The silence was broken by cheers and the snap of camera shutters as nine European high school students stepped out of a simulated Mars environment in Portugal, successfully completing the first-of-its-kind EXPLORE analog mission. From 23 to 27 June 2025, these students from Austria, Greece, and Portugal traded their everyday lives for a challenging five-day immersion in an isolated, Mars-like landscape near Monsaraz, in the wilds of the Alentejo province.

30-Jun-2025

Prof. Tamir Sheafer elected President of the Hebrew University

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Business Announcement

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced today (Monday) that Prof. Tamir Sheafer has been elected as its next president. The decision was approved by the University's Executive Committee and Board of Governors. Prof. Sheafer, who currently serves as the university’s rector, will assume the presidency in October 2025, succeeding Prof. Asher Cohen, who will complete two four-year terms in the role.

27-Jun-2025

What credit card habits reveal about Canadian households

University of British Columbia Okanagan campus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Age, education and even regional differences influence whether people pay off their balances or fall behind, new research reveals.

Journal: International Journal of Bank Marketing