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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.
Researchers have studied a somewhat overlooked aspect of our household chores: digital housekeeping.
Promoting slower consumption and more local reuse are among the suggestions for what wealthy cities can do to reduce textile exports to poor countries.
“There are schemes designed to alleviate the burden on mothers, but evidence suggests they are not effective,” says NOVA researcher Kaja Larsen Østerud.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Extreme weather events are hard to predict. New AI tools might just have the solution.
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.
Digitizing government welfare services is supposed to help make services more accessible to everyone. Are they unintentionally leaving people behind?
In his new book, cycling researcher Daniel Piatkowski shows how we can get even more people out of cars and onto bikes.
