The awarding of prizes can help boost career prospects and provide role models. Some of the most prestigious awards have the most secretive selections. This leads to a low representation of women and minorities among the winners. The European Geosciences...

After weeks of negotiations, leaders of the European Union agreed to ban 90% Russian oil imports by 2023. Russia will continue to be able sell millions of barrels per day of oil to the EU. Some of the proceeds will still go to funding the war. This fuel has...

Researchers were assured by the EU that Britain's withdrawal from the European Union was not a departure from Horizon Europe, the EU's research program. The terms of Britain's EU exit meant that the country would continue to contribute to the...

The COVID-19 pandemic began in April 2019. 17% of UK workers lost their jobs by April 2020. Women were 4.8 percentage point more likely to lose their jobs than men. The average income of a South African household with white members was 5.6 times higher than...

On the 4th of July 2012, scientists all over the globe celebrated the important news that Higgs boson researchers had discovered evidence to support its existence ten years ago. Teams working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), discovered the fundamental...

Globally, it is essential to phase out coal power plants in order to halt climate change. However, king coal is not going away. Because global strategies don't adapt to local realities, Coal power plants produce the most carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour...

This week marks the tenth year of the first large survey of microbial diversity within the human body. Published in Nature by Human Microbiome Project Consortium (HMP), I was a member. Microbiologists had known for a long time that the body was home to many...

Already, the consequences of Roe v. Wade's landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade on 24 June, are being felt. The court has placed abortion rights in the control of the US state legislatures by striking down Roe. They have...

Ask my cousin if you want to know how dangerous cooking can become. She was just three years old when she stepped on the kerosene stove of her mother in Saram, India. For the rest of her adult life, her face was scarred. Some fuels can be dangerous. Around...

Over three billion people depend on the ocean for their livelihood, with most of them living in developing countries. Aquaculture and fisheries are the primary source of animal protein for approximately 17% of the world's population. Fish contributes...

The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), held in Glasgow, UK, last November, saw a glimmer of hope. Two weeks of deliberation culminated in the signing of the Glasgow Climate Pact, an agreement between nations. If global warming...

For their daily existence, three billion people depend on the ocean for their livelihood. Climate change and industrial pollution have created more than 700 "dead zones", areas of the ocean that are no longer able to support marine life due to reduced oxygen....

The chocolate bars you buy in the USA might have been made in Belgium using cocoa from Cote d'Ivoire and almonds from Morocco. Vanilla from Madagascar, sugar from Brazil, and cocoa from Cote d'Ivoire. However, it is difficult to determine if these...

Researchers began to use rigorous experiments more than 20 years ago to test policies that would improve the lives and well-being of the poorest people in the world. This movement grew and now randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which were once only available...

Recently, I was showing visitors our brand new, white-walled laboratories at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme (MLW) in Blantyre, Malawi. To show the power of the US$250,000 flowcytometer, I used $250 vials of antibodies that were funded by the UK Medical...