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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Apr-2026 14:16 ET (26-Apr-2026 18:16 GMT/UTC)
Each year, about 85,000 adolescents and young adults (AYA) between the ages of 15 and 39 are diagnosed with cancer in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, this represents about 4% of all new cancer diagnoses.
Depending on age and specific diagnosis, many AYA people with cancer may be treated at either a pediatric cancer center or an adult cancer center. However, often these patients don’t feel comfortable in either setting as they feel too old for settings gear toward young children, but too young in centers where most of the patients are elderly.
This population also must navigate challenges surrounding normal milestones for others their age, such as pursuing an education, establishing a career or creating a family. Additionally, financial instability and lack of insurance coverage often deter AYAs from seeking timely medical attention, further complicating their prognosis.
The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology and the Alliance Foundation Trials (AFT) have several active trials specifically poised to help the AYA population as well as others open to people in the AYA demographic.
A groundbreaking study finds that unsupervised screen time – both TV and handheld devices – can intensify behavioral and emotional problems in young children. Unsupervised preschoolers with limited language skills showed the greatest rise in conduct issues in just six months. Often used as a convenient “babysitter,” screens may widen developmental gaps, displacing the interactions children need to build language, social and emotional skills. Not all screen time is harmful – but when it replaces engagement with parents and peers, it can become a barrier rather than a bridge to healthy development.
NTU Singapore is embarking on an ambitious effort to transform its undergraduate education with artificial intelligence (AI). By 2030, NTU Singapore aims to embed AI into 40% of the courses across all 52 undergraduate degree programmes the University offers. This is an eightfold increase from 5% today. Half of these courses will use AI to personalise learning. The other half will teach students how to build, deploy, and manage AI agents to solve real-world problems. The goal is to produce graduates who can not only learn continuously with AI tutors but can also create and work effectively with AI agents.
To power this aspiration, from August 2026, NTU will give all undergraduates full access to a suite of premium Google AI tools, such as Gemini Enterprise, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI. Students will also receive computing credits to build and deploy their own AI agents for learning and problem-solving. Each year, they can choose to create dozens of such AI agents to support their studies. These agents are portable – NTU graduates can continue to use and improve them even after they enter the workforce to enhance their productivity. This feature will make the University’s graduates highly competitive in the job market.
Okayama University of Science (OUS), in collaboration with ANA’s Maintenance Center, launched a joint talent development program focused on aircraft maintenance. As part of the program, award-winning students participated in a two-day experiential visit to ANA facilities at Haneda and Okayama airports.
Students explored ANA’s training center, including a flight simulator, and observed large-scale aircraft maintenance operations such as engine inspections and component replacements. The experience provided valuable hands-on insight into real-world aviation maintenance and deepened students’ understanding of the field.
Through this initiative, OUS continues to promote industry-academic collaboration and experiential learning in science and engineering education.
Drawing on an analysis of 71 childcare policy documents across eight Chinese megacities, the study identified key pathways to advancing universal childcare in the context of population decline. It highlighted two approaches to government responsibility—state-led and family-supportive—and outlines four supply modes. The findings offer comparative insights for improving policy design and support ongoing efforts to build an inclusive, high-quality childcare system in China.
Shanghai co-hosted a UNESCO learning cities meeting on digital and AI innovation for ESD, where Shanghai and Espoo shared practices in AI-enabled climate education and game-based learning. The meeting highlighted how emerging technologies enhance learning, foster collaboration, and support inclusive, future-oriented sustainable education across global learning cities.