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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.

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.

To mark the end of 13 years of education, Norway’s high school graduates participate in a celebration characterized by unique outfits, and bedazzled buses.

Artificial intelligence can now be trained to predict what the cloud cover will look like when the climate changes.

A close look at the principles governing the management of Norway’s oil fund shows that it may run out in two generations or less.

Norway and many other European countries have robust social safety nets. Yet they continue to fail their poorest citizens.