Researchers from China have examined South–South higher education interactions amid “triple disruptions,” applying Southern epistemologies and a typology of inward- and outward-oriented higher internationalization. Through analyzing a range of selected documents, their work reveals that South–South higher education interactions occur through a mix of approaches with a preference for inward-oriented expansion diffusion. The notion of new types of colonialism serves as a wake-up call for Southern countries’ outward-oriented internationalization for soft power enhancement.

Over the past 20 years, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly focused on click-through rates—regardless of journalistic quality. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, who analyzed around 40 million headlines from English-language news outlets across the last two decades. Their study has been published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 

Striking differences in trust in climate scientists across countries and ideologies may offer clues for getting people to support global warming action.

Reform voters enjoy more success on dating apps than Conservative voters, according to new research from the University of Southampton and Harvard University.

The study, published in the Journal of Politics found that even left-wing voters are more likely to swipe right (‘like’) on a Reform voter’s profile than a Conservative voter.