We trust preservice teachers to guide the next generation's digital habits, but our data shows they are struggling with severe internet addiction themselves. Here is how we can predict and intervene before compromised educators enter the classroom.

How medieval disability studies can help us approach modern social issues

Nearly one in three early-career researchers reports elevated psychological distress. New global evidence shows why supporting the next generation of scientists requires structural reform, not simply more training, webinars, resilience, or individual coping.

A new Springer Nature white paper on the impact of China’s gold open access articles explores how publishing openly can help research travel further. This post offers practical insights into how openness, collaboration, and publishing choices can broaden the visibility and use of your work.

Shane Tilton is Professor of Multimedia Journalism at Ohio Northern University (USA). He's author of several Palgrave titles, including Writing Multimedia Journalism. Here, he and his editor Robin James discuss the impact journalists' humanistic labor has in society.

A new Springer Nature white paper on the impact of China’s gold open access articles explores how publishing openly can help research travel further. This post offers practical insights into how openness, collaboration, and publishing choices can broaden the visibility and use of your work.

This cross-journal collection invites manuscripts that investigate the distribution and determinants of adolescent mental health across diverse settings as ...

When we think about risk in early childhood, certain images come easily to mind: a child climbing too high, running too fast, balancing on an unstable surface, or attempting something that might end in a scraped knee.

The origins of this research probably go back much further than I ever realised. From childhood experiences and observations of gender preference to becoming a researcher, this is the story of how a personal experience became a research question.

Shane Tilton is Professor of Multimedia Journalism at Ohio Northern University (USA). He's author of several Palgrave titles, including Writing Multimedia Journalism. Here, he and his editor Robin James discuss the impact journalists' humanistic labor has in society.

Academics worldwide are rethinking their assessment approaches — from developing exams that artificial-intelligence tools can’t pass to sneaking hidden AI prompts into tasks to catch cheating students.

This study originated during field visits to Dasenech camps in Southern Ethiopia. Facing childhood malnutrition firsthand highlighted one of the most profound health injustices of our time—driving our team to investigate how climate hazards impact pediatric nutrition.

Many startups confuse scalability with suitability. Scalability asks whether an idea can grow. Suitability asks whether it should grow in its present form—and whether it fits the people, institutions and social realities on which its survival depends.