Cambridge-led study calls for urgent increase in international aid for education to address learning losses and the severe psychological impacts of Gaza war.

Researchers estimate children have lost the equivalent of up to five years of learning since 2020, first due to COVID-19, then war.

Eyewitness accounts gathered for the study also report children’s loss of hope and diminishing faith in values such as peace and human rights.

In The Physics Teacher, a physics professor-turned-AI-researcher explores the uses of generative AI to teach physical science. Gerd Kortemeyer compares the constantly increasing physics capabilities of generative AI to the boiling frog fable, which predicts that a frog will fail to recognize the danger of a gradually heating pot until it’s too late to hop out. Kortemeyer lays out situations where generative AI usage may be warranted and places where it may not help education — and therefore, a “jump out of the pot” is warranted.

A new discovery at the University of Missouri reveals that vitamin C may help protect reproductive health from a harmful environmental chemical. Using a fish model, researchers found that exposure to potassium perchlorate, a chemical commonly used in explosives and fireworks, can harm sperm production, potentially reducing fertility.

An innovative teaching project led by Mr Ki Sum Samson Wong, Assistant Lecturer in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit of the School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has recently won a Gold Award in the Nurturing Wellbeing and Purpose category at QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) Reimagine Education Awards 2025. Mr Wong’s teaching initiative was the only Hong Kong-based entry to receive a Gold-level Award at this year’s QS Reimagine Education Awards and Conference held in London on December 1-3, 2025.