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This week’s multidisciplinary digest features 10 studies, with 6 African-led and 4 global, from journals including International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journalism Practice, and Journal of Financial Economics. This week: AI imagery boosts older adult engagement, community radio journalists navigate protest risks, symbolic adoption of sustainability reporting in Morocco, a framework for AI illiteracy, personality predicts life outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, and more.

This week’s digest covers quantum computing, microbiology, public health, chemistry, cancer biology, statistics, physics, ecology, bioinformatics, and geometry, with 8 African-led and 2 global studies; journals are cited. This week: Toffoli gate fidelity limits, a new amoeba species from Ghana, hearing loss in intellectual disability, 7SK-driven colorectal cancer resistance, and relative density in capture–recapture models.

This week’s digest covers 10 open-access papers in quantum physics, microbiology, public health, chemistry, computational biology, statistics, high-energy physics, ecology, bioinformatics, and mathematics, with 7 African-led studies and 3 global ones, all from journals including Springer, Wiley, PLOS, Elsevier, and Taylor & Francis. This week: practical fidelity limits of Toffoli gates in superconducting quantum processors, a new amoeba species from Ghana, hearing loss among people with intellectual disabilities in Germany, and a dual-axis mechanism of cancer resistance by non-coding RNA 7SK.

This week’s digest spans agricultural science, plant biology, and food safety, featuring 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies from journals like Plants, International Journal of Food Microbiology, and Current Biology. This week: papaya Salmonella risk in Benin, conflict-driven food insecurity in Nigeria, land registration benefits in Malawi, and AI-powered cotton pest counting.

This digest covers agricultural and environmental sciences with 10 studies, 5 African-led and 5 global, from journals like Plants, International Journal of Food Microbiology, and Current Biology. This week: silicon-nutrient combos boost stress tolerance, street papaya poses Salmonella risk, conflict worsens food insecurity in Nigeria, land registration improves Malawi food security, and smart inputs offer low-cost soil solutions.

This digest covers engineering and applied sciences, with eight African-led studies and two global studies, all from journals like Transportmetrica B, Results in Engineering, and PLoS ONE. This week: a traffic model for mixed vehicles, solar economics under grid unreliability, interconnected retrofitting barriers, a robust twin rotor controller, noise-resilient community detection, an inverted pendulum analysis, M2SNet for medical segmentation, igraph 1.0 release, LLM-based agents review, and a geothermal reservoir model.

This digest covers engineering and applied sciences, featuring eight African-led studies and four global contributions, with journals cited for each. This week: a new traffic model for mixed vehicles, economic viability of solar in Nigeria, interconnected retrofitting barriers, a robust control method for twin-rotor systems, a noise-resilient community detection algorithm, an improved inverted pendulum analysis, a sharper medical image segmentation network, a faster igraph library, a review of LLM-based agents, and a coupled geothermal reservoir model.

This digest covers 10 studies, including 5 African-led and 5 global, from journals like Vaccine and Journal of Financial Economics. This week: public oversight of surveillance, AI imagery for seniors, maternal vaccine baselines, supply chain climate risks, step-based algebra feedback, soybean efficiency, ChatGPT stock prediction, flood firm damage, virtual influencer engagement, and cost-sharing games.

This digest covers 10 studies across governance, health, education, agriculture, finance, and marketing, with 6 African-led and 4 global papers from journals like Vaccine and Journal of Financial Economics. This week: effective surveillance oversight, maternal vaccine baselines, step-based algebra feedback, soybean efficiency gaps, ChatGPT stock prediction, flood impacts on firms, virtual influencer engagement, and irrigation game theory.

This week’s digest spans quantum computing, microbiology, public health, and more, with a focus on African-led research; journals are cited. This week: a new Mayorella species from Ghana, hearing loss in intellectual disabilities, offshore wind screening in Vietnam, and Klebsiella genomics in South Africa.