In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain. The Academy Award-winning movie – later developed into a novel by Isaac Asimov – seemed like pure fantasy at the time. […] … learn more→

When OpenAI’s Sam Altman told reporters in San Francisco earlier this year that the AI sector is in a bubble, the American tech market reacted almost instantly. Combined with the fact that 95 per cent of AI pilot projects fail, traders treated his remark as a broader warning. Although Altman was referring specifically to private startups rather than publicly […] … learn more→

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded notably to Philippe Aghion, has brought renewed emphasis to the benefits of technological innovation and its crucial role in economic growth. But are there not also forced innovations? The philosophy of Ivan Illich can shed light on this question. In theory, we […] … learn more→

You’ve probably come across the term “researcher positioning” in methods texts or heard it thrown around in doctoral seminars, and perhaps wondered what al the fuss is about. Positioning might sound like one of those unnecessarily complicated concepts but actually, it’s pretty straightforward once you get your head around it. More importantly, it gets at […] … learn more→

In the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts, albums, painting, photographs and much more to train their products such as ChatGPT – usually without any compensation to or consent from the creators. In fact, OpenAI and […] … learn more→

For today’s children and teenagers, the boundary between formal learning and media consumption has blurred: platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram are not mere pastimes, but primary spaces for socialization, identity building, and access to information . This “youth media diet,” composed of viral videos, memes, trends , and fragmented news, is the primary cultural matrix for new generations. […] … learn more→

Open science awareness alone is not enough to create an ethical research climate, especially without the support of an adequate research ecosystem. Publication pressures and quantitative incentives often lead to unethical research practices. A change in research culture based on quality and transparency is needed to create a healthy research ecosystem. Awareness of open science does not […] … learn more→

People are living longer than ever around the world. Longer lives bring new opportunities, but they also introduce challenges, especially the risk of age-related decline. Alongside physical changes such as reduced strength or slower movement, many older adults struggle with memory, attention and everyday tasks. Researchers have spent years trying to understand why some people […] … learn more→

Continuous notifications, urgent headlines, chained short videos, streaming series , personalized ads, after-hours work emails… Today, our brain is no longer a serene and orderly space, but a constant battlefield where hundreds of actors fiercely compete to win our attention. The economist and Nobel laureate Herbert Simon already warned in the 1970s of a paradox that is central today: […] … learn more→

We love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your research. They are often keen on making the world a better place, too. They don’t get enough recognition for all that they do. They are also, in our experience, unfailingly polite. So, it came as a bit of a shock […] … learn more→