Recent study at UC San Diego is the first detailed assessment of companies offering school-based online surveillance services such as social media monitoring, student communications monitoring and online activity monitoring to middle and high schools.

For small-scale farmers up against floods, droughts and other dramatic climate events, diversifying income sources can mean financial safety — a lifeline as crop-growing conditions destabilize. But in Nepal, where natural hazards rank among the most severe in the world, how farmers perceive climate-related risks often leads them to double down on agriculture instead of exploring other livelihoods, according to a study led by a Penn State researcher.

Family ostracism—being ignored or excluded by your own family—can significantly impair leadership effectiveness and reduce customer service performance, and organisations need to recognize it as a legitimate form of employee stress that can damage the workplace, new research shows.  

The landscape of international higher education and science is changing fast amid uneven geopolitics of the transforming global order. Multipolar political economy and expansion of universities and research in China, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa provides a strong basis for national development and collaboration on common problems, paving the way to a shared global future, but this is jeopardized by intense United States pushback against openness and cooperation, affecting science, technology and cross-border mobility.

An editorial in ECNU Review of Education explores how the COVID-19 pandemic permanently shifted the role of educational technology (EdTech) in global classrooms. It introduces eight cutting-edge studies covering EdTech's influence on language learning, student autonomy, and equity-driven design. The piece argues that EdTech’s future depends not on widespread adoption alone, but on inclusivity, critical engagement, and strong educator support.

The new study of more than 30,000 adults in the U.S. found that the rate of cognitive decline associated with aging fell by 15%-20% for people who formally volunteer their services or who help in more informal ways with neighbors, family or friends outside the home on a regular basis. This cognitive benefit was consistently observed when individuals devoted about two to four hours per week to helping others.

New research from Michigan State University finds that microbes play an important role in shaping early brain development, specifically in a key brain region that controls stress, social behavior, and vital body functions.