New report shows action to improve gender equity linked to career gains and better business performance
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Dec-2025 09:11 ET (26-Dec-2025 14:11 GMT/UTC)
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
In a comprehensive review that spans two decades, researchers are examining the profound impact of technological innovation on the journey towards carbon neutrality. The study, titled "Impact of Technological Innovation on Carbon Neutrality: Systematic and Bibliometric Review of Two Decades of Research," is led by Prof. Ephraim Bonah Agyekum from the Department of Nuclear and Renewable Energy at Ural Federal University Named After the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin in Ekaterinburg, Russia. This review, conducted in collaboration with the Applied Science Research Center at Applied Science Private University in Amman, Jordan, and Tashkent State University of Economics in Tashkent City, Uzbekistan, offers a detailed analysis of how technological advancements have shaped the path to carbon neutrality.