Answer seven questions and get an indication of how your relationship is right now. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, researchers at Stockholm University are publishing a new study in the journal Cognitive Behaviour Therapy that introduces a scientifically validated scale, the ‘Valentine's Scale’. The scale measures how satisfied you are in your love relationship.

A new large-scale, global survey has revealed that most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted.

This also applies in the USA where several social media platforms have recently modified their policies in favor of unrestricted free speech.

However, the majority of users believe that intolerance and hate have become unavoidable on social media.

This study, conducted by the University of Oxford and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has been published today (11 Feb).

Most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted. This also applies in the USA where several social media platforms have recently modified their policies in favor of unrestricted free speech. However, the majority of users believe that intolerance and hate have become unavoidable on social media. This was revealed in a large-scale survey conducted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Oxford in 10 countries in Europe, America, Africa and Australia. The study also highlights differences among countries.

Public posts on social media platforms shed light on the extent and nature of prolific illegal wildlife hunting in Lebanon, research in Oryx—The International Journal of Conservation, published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora, has found. 

The study is the first to use social media as a tool for assessing illegal hunting activities in Lebanon. The country, along with the Mediterranean region more broadly, is a global poaching blackspot, particularly for the illegal killing of protected birds.  

The combination of poorly developed social and cognitive skills during childhood is linked to poor exam results by the age of 16, with those for whom these  issues persist throughout their childhood more than 4 times as likely not to pass at least 5 GCSEs, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

The George Daniels' Educational Trust has made an extraordinary donation of £1.2 million to support engineering students from disadvantaged backgrounds at City St George’s, University of London.

This remarkable gift aims to champion social mobility by funding bursaries that will transform lives and provide new opportunities for those facing financial challenges.