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Last year began with high hopes — after two decades of neglect — of new, high-level political recognition of the importance of science and technology to development. In addition,…
Two important nuclear anniversaries take place in August. The first — for many the most significant — is that commemorating the dropping of the first nuclear bomb on the Japanese…
Even a seasoned political operator like Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair will have found it difficult to swallow the relative failure of this year’s Group of Eight (G8) summit…
Mention the word policy and many scientists instinctively reach for their gun. The reality is that science needs policymakers as much as policymakers need science. The obvious…
Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank presents a major challenge to the whole development community. Science may well benefit but it is essential that poverty alleviation, not…
The Academy of Science of South Africa has been chosen to receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The science academies of Nigeria and Uganda have also…
There have recently been encouraging signs that science and technology are climbing back on to the international development agenda. There could not be a more dramatic — or…
Some of the most important issues to be addressed in the climate change talks that opened in Buenos Aires is how Brazil, China and India can be persuaded to tackle global…
More than six million children die each year in the developing world from diseases that could be prevented by simple interventions. While effective mechanisms for getting the…
The delay on a United Nations decision whether to ban all forms of human cloning has been described as a ”tremendous victory” by Bernard Siegel, executive director of the…
There was both a tragic and a timely element in the way that last week’s death of the Hollywood actor Christopher Reeve — best known for his leading role in the Superman films —…
There was both bad and good news for delegates preparing for the International Aids Conference in Bangkok. The bad news took the form of yet another warning of the potential…
