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What can we learn from a 100-year-old housing experiment?

In a study published late last year, three architects explored the history of Trondhjems Kooperative Boligselskap (TKB) in light of social and political trends in today's Norway. TKB was and is a groundbreaking project from ...

Young people can be helped to develop more grit

A recent study shows that a new program can increase "grit" and self-efficacy in adolescents. Approximately 16,000 young people will soon have access to this program each year.

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Missing link in Indo-European languages' history found

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in collaboration with David ...