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13-Oct-2025

AI, health, and health care today and tomorrow – the JAMA Summit Report on artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence carries promise and uncertainty for clinicians, patients, and health systems. This JAMA Summit Report presents expert perspectives on the opportunities, risks, and challenges of AI in health care, including how AI is developed, evaluated, regulated, and implemented across clinical and business domains.

Journal: JAMA

13-Oct-2025

Happiness is not found in fast fashion – reducing consumption improves body image and well-being

University of Vaasa
Reports and Proceedings

Appealing to personal well-being is a more effective way to reduce clothing consumption than invoking environmental concerns, reveals a doctoral dissertation from the University of Vaasa, Finland. Doctoral researcher Essi Vesterinen's research in marketing shows that extending the lifespan of clothes is linked to subjective well-being and positive body image.

Funder: Maj ja Tor Nesslingin Säätiö, Alfred Kordelinin Säätiö, Liikesivistysrahasto

13-Oct-2025

New report shows action to improve gender equity linked to career gains and better business performance

Curtin University
Reports and Proceedings

A new report out today shows that companies taking action for gender equality see lower staff turnover, more women in leadership and better shareholder value.

10-Oct-2025

Transnational electoral participation of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the US

Waseda University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Although there is a growing scholarly interest in studying the engagement of expatriates in external voting in their countries of origin, conventional survey methods often fall short of accurately representing the perceptions and political participation of undocumented immigrants. Remedying this gap, researchers from Japan used respondent-driven sampling to assess the factors that influence the political participation of undocumented Mexican immigrants residing in the US in Mexican elections.

Journal: The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics

10-Oct-2025

Nobel Laureates Duflo and Banerjee to join UZH

University of Zurich
Business Announcement

The Nobel Prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join the University of Zurich in July 2026. Using external funds provided by the Lemann Foundation, the two researchers will establish a new center for development economics, education and public policy.

10-Oct-2025

New open-source tool quantifies uncertainty in green-hydrogen economics

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team at Clausthal University of Technology has released the first Python-based life-cycle costing (LCC) tool that explicitly models the inherent uncertainty surrounding proton-exchange-membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE), a cornerstone technology for producing “green” hydrogen. The work is published today in Frontiers in Energy under the title “Working with uncertainty in life-cycle costing: New approach applied to the case study on proton-exchange-membrane water electrolysis” (Chen et al., 2025).

Journal: Frontiers in Energy

9-Oct-2025

Multitasking makes you more likely to fall for phishing emails

Binghamton University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Picture this: You’re on a Zoom call, Slack is buzzing, three spreadsheets are open and your inbox pings. In that moment of divided attention, you miss the tiny red flag in an email. That’s how phishing sneaks through, and with 3.4 billion malicious emails sent daily, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Journal: European Journal of Information Systems