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Tesla’s decision to not sign a collective agreement with its service workers in Sweden may now affect Superchargers as another union joins the fight. For the past four months, Tesla service workers in Sweden have been on strike in order to get included in a collective agreement. The automaker has always had a hard stance against unions, and it has thus far been able to fend off unionization efforts at its manufacturing facilities. This one in Sweden seemed manageable. It’s only affecting a few…

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research samples collected over decades at a prestigious Swedish medical university have been destroyed after a freezer malfunctioned over the Christmas holidays, the university said on Monday. The incident has been reported to police, the university added. The samples were stored in tanks cooled with liquid nitrogen, at a…

The study of ancient gravesites is a fascinating (if morbid) way of peering into the past, though some searches can raise more questions than answers. Take for instance these Early Neolithic skeletons found in a Swedish tomb, which are all missing their skulls.The stone burial chamber (or "dolmen") involved was found in Tiarp, near Falköping, and excavated by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and Kiel University in Germany. They've managed to catalog body parts from the remains of at least 12…

Subgroup comparison – Language and education. Credit: The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (2024). DOI: 10.1017/rep.2023.38 On the international level, there is broad consensus that it is essential to recognize and implement Indigenous rights as well as to correct inequalities and historical injustices. Yet many nation-states struggle with effective implementation. …

The chamber under excavation. East side mold removed. The plastic tubes are samples for environmental DNA. Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren Last summer, archaeologists from Gothenburg University and Kiel University excavated a dolmen, a stone burial chamber, in Tiarp near Falköping in Sweden. The archaeologists judge that the grave has remained untouched since the Stone Age. First analysis results now confirm that the grave in Tiarp…

Swedish electric car company Polestar is slashing its workforce by 15 percent globally. About 450 employees are expected to be let go due to “challenging market conditions.” The news comes despite its six percent increase in global car deliveries compared to 2022, according to its recent fourth quarter global fiscal report.The company did, however, warn that it would reduce its headcount back in May 2023 which was around the same time it announced its production goals were disappointingly off by 10,000 to 20,000 cars from…

This lyrical and ambitious verse novel won the August prize, Sweden’s most prestigious literary award, and has now been translated into English by Saskia Vogel. It tells the story of two Sami families across three generations of the 20th century. The Sami are the EU’s only Indigenous people, and they live in lands north of the Arctic Circle, which are now part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.Ædnan contains echoes of epic poems and Norse sagas but also feels contemporary and accessible. There are no gods or heroes…

Photo by Lukas Kloeppel on Pexels.com It’s no surprise that Norway is leading the world in EV adoption, but 2023 saw the country reach new heights with electric vehicles taking a record 82% market share, and Tesla with a whopping 20% market share. And despite Tesla’s ongoing labor disputes in the region and blocks on imports, Tesla’s sales in Sweden grew by 9% in December. In Norway, the American EV maker is leading the charge with 20% market share, a huge jump from last year’s 12.2%,…

Examination of Viking jaw and teeth. Credit: Carolina Bertilsson, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to treat them, according to a study published December 13, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carolina Bertilsson of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and colleagues. …