science-based development

A new film explores the discovery and excitement young scientists are finding at the CAS-TWAS Centres of Excellence in Beijing.

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.

Building science in developing nations requires improved universities, says TWAS executive director

TWAS is one of seven partners in the CATALYST consortium, a European project on 'Capacity Development for Hazard Risk Reduction and Adaptation'

Colombia’s International Centre of Physics, which began as a training centre for young physicists, is now pursuing a broad research agenda with economic growth in mind.

Efforts to improve public health in Pakistan have received a boost through an innovative programme that delivers basic medical care through the internet.

Lidia Brito from Mozambique, the new head of UNESCO's science policy division, outlines her plans for helping to strengthen the role of science in both development and diplomacy

"China must move from a low-cost manufacturing economy to an economy driven by science-based innovation," says Wang Yuan

TWAS and ISTIC announce the recipients of the first ‘ISTIC-TWAS Entrepreneurship Awards’.

The role of science academies in advancing science, technology and innovation in the Balkans will be a key topic of discussion at an international workshop taking place in Trieste, Italy