Twas in Action

At a time when increasing access to electricity is driving economic growth in a number of developing countries, sub-Saharan Africa's electricity supplies remain stagnant.

Science could be both a source and beneficiary of the dramatic changes taking place in the Arab region

Daniel Schaffer, TWAS's Public Information Officer, is retiring

The Executive Director of TWAS, Romain Murenzi, has just returned from a successful partnership-building trip to Japan, jointly organized by the Japanese Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum

Mary O'Kane reviewed how government support for top research centres in Australia has had somewhat unexpected spin-offs

AAAS and (TWAS) have signed a formal agreement to pursue an ambitious slate of joint projects to enhance efforts at the nexus of science and diplomacy

A five-day workshop jointly organized by ICTP, TWAS, IOP and APS gave engineers and physicists from developing countries valuable step-by-step advice on how to convert their good ideas into products

Today is World Water Day (WWD), an annual date to raise awareness about the challenges posed by water quality and quantity

TWAS executive director Romain Murenzi was among 19 high profile delegates invited to attend a meeting aimed at encouraging and supporting scientific collaboration between the US and DPR Korea

12-13 May was 'World Bird Migratory Day'. We asked Mexican ornithologist Paula Enríquez Rocha, a member of TWAS's partner organization OWSD, to tell us more about why this day matters