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This week in agricultural and environmental sciences, we feature 7 African-led and 3 global studies, with journals cited. This week: silencing proline dehydrogenases boosts cotton stress tolerance, plant-microbe networks under climate change, velvet bean as a functional food, teff yield optimization in Ethiopia, energy-efficient greenhouse rose production, combined drying for sweet potato, and canopy-driven pollinator recovery in tropical forests.

This week’s digest covers artificial intelligence, graph theory, health professions education, materials science, energy and combustion engineering, and time-series forecasting, with 7 African-led studies and 3 global studies; journals are cited for each item. This week: XAI from inherent explainability to LLMs, the 13-conjectures for domination in cubic graphs, neurophobia among South African rehabilitation students, aragonite from cuttlebone waste for 3D printing, and self-regenerating photocatalytic water treatment systems.

This week in computer science, energy, and health education, we digest 10 new open-access studies, many with African authors. This week: explainable AI shifting to large language models, two conjectures in cubic graph domination settled, neurophobia found in South African rehabilitation students, and self-regenerating photocatalytic water treatment systems proposed.

This week in education, language, and interdisciplinary scholarship, we highlight 10 new studies, with 6 led by African researchers and 4 from global teams, all published in peer-reviewed open-access journals. This week: reverse mission challenges traditional mission flows, South Africa’s romance market marginalizes Black readers, finger lengths estimate stature in Ethiopia, and string quartet lessons boost violin skills in South Africa.

This week in education, language learning, and interdisciplinary scholarship, we feature 7 African-led and 3 global studies, all from open-access journals. This week: reverse mission challenges traditional directions, South African romance readers remain marginalized, anti-natalism’s logical flaw, finger lengths estimate height in Ethiopia, string quartets boost violin skills, AI literacy aids Ethiopian EFL writers, and enjoyment drives language learning.

This week’s education research digest covers ten open-access studies, all African-led or African-context, with journals cited throughout. This week: classroom peer-ecology profiles and student wellbeing, teacher confidence masking weak graph knowledge, Urdu adaptation of a heart-failure quality-of-life tool, Tanzanian student teachers’ inclusive-education gaps, rural South African curriculum-adaptation support, and beginning-teacher identity strain in rural schools.

Education research this week features 9 studies, 6 African-led and 3 global, with journals cited. This week: Finnish students’ peer ecology profiles linked to wellbeing, South African teachers’ confidence masking conceptual gaps in graphs, Tanzanian student teachers unprepared for inclusive education, and rural South African teachers lacking support for inclusive assessment.

This week’s law and social policy digest features 10 studies, 7 African-led and 3 global, with journals cited. This week: South Africa’s constitutional basis for a Basic Income Grant, exclusion of poor able-bodied adults from welfare, Kente fabric protection challenges, Nigerian succession law and personhood, penal populism’s failed claims, and AI liability in Moroccan healthcare.

This week in Earth, environmental, and life sciences features 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies, all published in major open-access journals. This week: hybrid machine learning for Mediterranean sea level prediction, a new Jurassic marine crocodile from Morocco, UAV-based water monitoring for taro, and dire wolf palaeogenomics.

This week in cancer genomics, medicinal chemistry, crop genetics, otolaryngology, materials science, venomics, network analysis, and mathematical physics: ten open-access papers, seven African-led, with journals cited. This week: a Lancet Oncology Commission on equitable cancer genomics, solvent-free synthesis of cyano-amide derivatives, a pearl millet genome-wide association study in Senegal, a randomised trial of steroid delivery for sudden hearing loss, and a venom inventory of the North African scorpion Buthus tunetanus.