Linda Banda, a Malawi native, worked to help child marriage, a persistent problem in her native Malawi. After helping ensure a new law and constitutional amendment, she began research to evaluate ongoing efforts to stem the problem. She found agencies and others working on the issue often are put at odds with each other due to competition for international funding, and that local knowlege and culture is often overlooked, and she and co-researchers argue an African feminist lens could help more effectively employ local knowledge and culture to end the problem of child marriage.

Artificial intelligence could soon allow powerful companies to charge each customer a different price for the same product, based on what they think each individual is willing to pay.

Rising living costs, energy insecurity, widening inequality, and escalating climate impacts are fueling discussions on fairness and justice in climate policy. Yet, assumptions in global emission scenarios that determine who benefits and who bears the costs are often only made implicitly. A new IIASA-led study addresses this gap by offering a practical way to assess and design emission scenarios that explicitly account for distributive justice.

The small talk you try to avoid because you think it will be boring may actually be more enjoyable than you think, and good for you as well, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. 

Social media is where teenagers spend most of their time, either scrolling and sharing, or sometimes falling into the traps of fake news, toxic content and online drama. But what if we could equip our young people to challenge harmful narratives and protect themselves from the darker side of the internet?