#Learning (17)
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Critical Thinking About Health Education: 53% of Students Retain Skills 1 Year After Intervention
Surprising finding: Teaching secondary school students nine key concepts about evaluating health information significantly improved their critical thinking skills, with 88% of the learning retained one year later across trials in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
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Children with Cleft Lip and Palate Show Unexpected Strengths
Did you know? Children with repaired cleft lip and palate often perform as well as—or even better than—their peers on certain attention and memory tasks, suggesting their brains may develop compensatory strategies for learning.
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Pharmacy Education Faces Critical Reforms Amid Declining Enrollment
Did you know? A 2026 analysis reveals that US pharmacy education programs face declining enrollments and fragmented professional identity, prompting calls for urgent reform toward competency-based lifelong learning models.
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Learning Organizations May Help Nursing Homes Adapt to Care Challenges
Did you know? A 2025 review found only 14 studies have examined how 'learning organizations' work in nursing homes, despite their potential to improve both care quality and staff satisfaction in facilities facing labor shortages and shifting care priorities.
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Brain's Molecular Brakes: How Perineuronal Nets Shape Learning
Surprising finding: Your brain contains molecular nets that act as 'brakes' on learning, controlling when and how easily your neural circuits can change throughout your life.
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Sleep May Clear Brain Space for New Learning, Study Reviews
Quick fact: A 2026 review explores whether sleep consolidates memories by freeing up hippocampal resources, potentially making room for learning the next day—though the evidence remains unclear.
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Immersive Simulation Shows Promise for Nursing Students
Surprising finding: Nursing students learning through immersive simulation—virtual reality environments that mimic real clinical scenarios—showed higher engagement, motivation, and academic performance than those taught with traditional methods in 11 studies involving over 1,000 participants.
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How Parents' Timely Responses Shape Baby Language Learning
Did you know? When caregivers respond promptly to a baby's actions—like looking at an object or babbling—they create a powerful learning loop that builds language skills through multiple brain pathways simultaneously.
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Arsenic Exposure Linked to Lower IQ in Children Worldwide
Quick fact: A 2025 review of 24 studies found that children exposed to higher levels of arsenic through water and food consistently showed lower IQ scores, slower processing speeds, and impaired memory—effects that persisted even after accounting for family income and education.
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Cancer Education for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Surprising finding: Despite educational programs to raise cancer awareness among people with intellectual disabilities, not a single study has measured whether these efforts actually increased cancer screening rates.
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Brain Structure Anomalies Linked to Cognitive Challenges in Spina Bifida
Did you know? Children born with myelomeningocele (spina bifida) often have brain structure differences — including Chiari II malformation and altered connections between brain hemispheres — that are linked to specific patterns of thinking and learning challenges lasting into young adulthood.
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Rats and Roaches Solve Problems Together—But Very Differently
Surprising finding: Rats and cockroaches both achieve collective intelligence when making group decisions, but roaches rely on ancient hardwired mechanisms while rats use cognitive skills similar to primates—including empathy and cultural learning.
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Disrupted Sleep May Explain Why Hybrids Struggle Cognitively
Quick fact: When different species mate and produce hybrid offspring, the offspring may experience sleep disruption that impairs brain function and learning ability.
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Tech Support Groups Help Scientists Combat Digital Overload
Did you know? A new type of peer support group called Technology Accountability Groups (TAGs) is helping graduate students and faculty in STEM fields reduce technology-related stress while learning new digital skills together.
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Active Learning Beyond Discussion Boards in Nursing Education
Quick fact: A review of 19 studies found that nursing students learned better through games, simulations, and interactive videos than traditional discussion boards in online courses.
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Interactive Teaching Methods Improve Physiology Learning
Quick fact: A 2026 review analyzing 35 years of research identified six actionable strategies that help physiology students grasp complex concepts without requiring entire curriculum redesigns.
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Problem-Based Learning Plus WeChat Tops Teaching Methods for Medical Residents
Did you know? A 2025 analysis of 5,004 Chinese medical residents found that combining problem-based learning with the WeChat app improved test scores by 2.3 standard deviations compared to traditional lectures—and reduced student dissatisfaction by 94%.