Twas in Action

The presidents of Italy and Rwanda, Nobel laureates, global science leaders and many TWAS fellows helped the pioneering physics centre celebrate a milestone

The Millennium Development Goals have helped drive historic progress against poverty and disease. But their biggest global impact may be less obvious.

Science will be crucial to solving global challenges. But some analysts worry that science lacks a voice in shaping the Sustainable Development Goals.

At a workshop in Mexico, co-organized by TWAS, experts weighed the environmental and social costs of surging global demand for the holothurians.

At a high-level conference co-organized by the InterAcademy Medical Panel, global health leaders focused on how poverty and other disadvantages can have lifelong health consequences.

At 25th General Meeting, prize winners will detail scientific research ranging from materials that assemble themselves to vaccines that may prevent liver cancer

A science diplomacy workshop in Mexico, co-organized by TWAS, provides training on sustainable management of small fisheries

Argentinian neuroscientist Francisco Barrantes says advanced technology provides new insights about the brain. But many mysteries remain

Biochemist Yongyuth Yuthavong moves into a critical development role in his home country

Influential Latin American science communicator Diego Golombek has a message for researchers everywhere