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15 January 2026

Major Mapping of the Swedish Power Elite

What does the Swedish power elite look like today? The last time we received a scientific description was in 1990, when the S...

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07 January 2026

New research initiative on corruption and environmental crime

Corruption is widely recognised as an obstacle to effective and sustainable environmental governance. Yet, there is still ins...

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19 November 2025

Study Shows Why People Dislike Carbon Taxes

A carbon tax would be effective and inexpensive – so why do people dislike the idea? A new study provides answers. Economist...

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13 November 2025

“AI’s inherent incomprehensibility is a unique flaw.”

Being able to explain how something works has value, but being able to explain why it works is enormously more valuable, beca...

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15 August 2025

Swedes worry about the environmental consequences of childbearing

Foto: Kelli McClintock/Unsplash Are people having fewer children because they worry about climate change? Researchers at the...

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28 January 2025

Director of innovation to the board

We welcome a new member to our board, Andreas Muranyi Scheutz! He is Director of research and innovation in Region Stockholm ...

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03 September 2024

Declining birth rates - should we worry?

Are declining birth rates one of the biggest threats to humanity? Among others, Elon Musk and Donald Trump's vice-presidentia...

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30 May 2024

High impact: Report to Joe Biden cites IFFS research

Research on population change, ageing and the economy, by Dean Spears, researcher in the project “Sustainable population in t...

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07 March 2024

Are public decisions made by artificial intelligence democratically okay?

Are public decisions made by artificial intelligence democratically okay?The reason this is an important question is that alr...

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05 March 2024

Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors...

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