Last month, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) reported dire statistics about the impacts of COV...
Seven months after the first reported cases of COVID-19, the pandemic has disrupted every aspect of life, leaving many shuttered and disordered, having to find new ways to communicate, wo...
As the race for a COVID-19 vaccine continues, the Billion Molecules Against COVID-19 Global GrandChallenge - organised by the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI) - kicked off on 4...
La crisis de COVID-19 ha puesto de relieve el papel vital de la ciencia en la sociedad. La ciencia nos proporcionará una "estrategia de salida" de la pandemia cuando finalmente se desarro...
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted science’s vital role in society. Science will provide us with an “exit strategy” from the pandemic when a vaccine is finally developed but until then, ...
As the virus continues to ravage the globe, we all stand in awe of how – in a flash – the life we knew, and with it, our habits and behaviours, has turned upside down.
• 'Science diplomacy', meaning international cooperation with science at its core, is the key to overcoming COVID-19.
I’m at home – not at the bench doing experiments, not in my office speaking with colleagues and not in the field on an expedition surveying and collecting venomous snails. Instead, I’m co...
- The dire social and economic impact of COVID-19 could worsen environmental destruction in the long run.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, which was established in 1970 to highlight the need to protect our environment. Since then, our current geological era has been proposed...
The world has not known, in living memory, a pandemic on the scale of what we are experiencing with COVID-19. Nor has the world had access to data and analysis, much of it being generated...
Last week I returned home from a month-long trip during which – shock horror! – I was without an internet connection.
As the world experiences the cascading effects of a new pandemic, people everywhere are afraid. Almost every aspect of modern life has been dramatically disrupted by the disease COVID-19,...
It is the time of year when we celebrate the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which this year has reached a marvellous milestone: its silver jubilee (COP25).
Imagine being able to cheaply and easily “suck” carbon directly out of our atmosphere. Such a capability would be hugely powerful in the fight against climate change and advance us toward...
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