Encouraging men to study female-dominated industries could improve gender equality, reveals new research by the University of Cologne.

Machines can make better decisions than humans, but humans often struggle to know when the machine’s decision-making is actually more accurate and end up overriding the algorithm decisions for worse, according to new research by ESMT Berlin.

The majority of the people in the 21 States are aware of their native Handlooms. Overall, 62% of the respondents of a survey, conducted by Public App, displayed familiarity with their State's handloom and heritage. Notably, states like Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Assam demonstrated a deep affinity for their traditional handloom with 71%, 70%, and 73% respectively being familiar with it.

Being admitted to upper secondary education at age 16 greatly reduces young men’s propensity to commit crime, research from Aalto University School of Business in Finland reveals.

India’s coal-based thermal power plants continue to drag their feet in meeting emission norms, says a new analysis done by the Centre for Science and Environment. Sulfur dioxide emissions are a case in point: the CSE analysis finds that a mere five percent of the installed capacity in this sector has put in place an air pollution control device – flue gas de-sulfurization (FGD) system -- for controlling SO2 emissions.

Illegal wildlife trafficking risks triggering future global pandemics and loss of biodiversity and needs to be tackled, finds new research into the ways in which global supply chains are being hijacked by criminals, from the University of Sussex.