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Mothers of disabled children work less, take more sick leave, and often leave the workforce entirely

“There are schemes designed to alleviate the burden on mothers, but evidence suggests they are not effective,” says NOVA researcher Kaja Larsen Østerud.

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Imagining tomorrow: How fiction shapes our vision of a sustainable future

Technology in one form or another is part of all our ideas about the future. However, there are also alternative ways to envision life in 30 years.

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The rise of digital housekeeping: the hidden work of smart technology

Researcher have studied a somewhat overlooked aspect of our household chores: digital housekeeping.

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A holistic approach to supporting victimized children

Barnahus is an innovative model of caring for and supporting children who have been the victim of violence and sexual abuse. It provides a safe and supportive environment to meet their legal, medical, and psychological needs.

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Using artificial intelligence to detect and fight dementia

Dementia affects millions of people each year. It’s a problem that most of us will encounter in our lives and it does not yet have any cure or even effective early detection methods.

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What happens when rivers are given rights?

Researchers have been looking at what happened when rivers were granted status as legal persons. In New Zealand, they are seeing particularly promising developments in indigenous peoples’ rights and conditions.

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What the Industrial Revolution can teach us about today’s technological revolution

Technological revolutions have happened before, but none are quite so wide-ranging as the one we are currently living through. The past holds examples for how we can mitigate the negative consequences of and make sure the benefits don’t just go to those who already have power.

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Predicting extreme weather using artificial intelligence

Extreme weather events are hard to predict. New AI tools might just have the solution.

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New research sheds light on mortality rate disparities in Alaska during the 1918 flu pandemic

Exposure to earlier illness likely holds the key to understanding why some groups in Alaska suffered disproportionately high death rates in the 1918 influenza pandemic, OsloMet researchers have found.

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Norway leading in digitalization, but not everyone is benefitting

Digitizing government welfare services is supposed to help make services more accessible to everyone. Are they unintentionally leaving people behind?

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How to get more people to bicycle

In his new book, cycling researcher Daniel Piatkowski shows how we can get even more people out of cars and onto bikes.

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Making universal design truly universal

Examples of universal design are all around us but mostly focus on helping people with physical disabilities while designers often forget about accommodating cognitive disabilities.