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2023 Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry

Ramon Bernardo Gavito: “Basic Science has an Impact on Society”

African leadership for IUPAP Working Group on Climate Action

The ITER Project – Convergence of Basic and Applied Science

Gender Equality in Mathematics at ICIAM 2023

Science for Sustainable Development: Challenges for Central Asia

What have accelerators ever done for us?

Sharmistha Paul Dutta: “Basic science drives technological achievements and innovations”

Basic science: from studying things and theory to managing the world and benefiting the people

Improving Gender Equality in Sciences

Better spatial planning to prevent obesity

An organic chemistry conference in South Africa that welcomes postgraduate students

Interdisciplinary approaches for better and sustainable software at the European XFEL

Monica Turcato: “Policy makers must think ahead”

Mathematicians support sustainable development

Interdisciplinary Research at European XFEL: A Team Effort

Raising Mathematics Profile in Senegal

Indian Chemistry Teachers will Gather in Gujarat

Beyond world class science – Developing a sustainable radio astronomy observatory

Camila de Sá Freitas: “Diversity Increases the Quality of Science”

A Call to Develop Basic Sciences in Moldova

International Symposium on “Chemistry For Sustainable Energy and Medical Applications”

ESA and Future Earth Partner to Fund Earth Observation Projects

The ICGEB Conference flyer

A conference to explore the molecular bases of prostate and cervical cancer

Advancing science collaboratively generates technologies relevant for all

Ana Garcia-Tabares: “Basic Science Drive Technology to its Limits”

Sixty scientists and young parliamentarians from 18 countries and regions attend a parliamentary meeting on water security held in Binh Dinh Province, south-central Vietnam from September 11 to 13, 2023. Photo: Lam Thien / Tuoi Tre

Experts Discuss Water Security at Meeting in Vietnam

The Relevancy of Basic Sciences in Proving the Rights of Nature

Young European Scientists Invited to Discover EIROforum Facilities

International seminar on air quality and IoT-based air sensors

Anniversary International Baldin seminar

Basic sciences – The Driver of STEM Education for Sustainability

A student from Almeria, Spain, get an award about basic sciences for sustainable development

Winners of SA IYBSSD School Competition announced

New International Commission on Human-Water Feedbacks

Design the Future: Curiosity Driven Quests for Global Solutions

Biophysics for Global Health and Sustainability

Hasegawa: “Biological anthropology helps us to think about what it means to be happy”

UN General Assembly proclaims International Decade of Science for Sustainable Development

First International Workshop of the Network for African Volcanologists

Lucia Baldino – One scientist is an island, many scientists make up a flourishing community

World Association of Young Scientists Sustainable Development Goals Award

More Science of Life for Better Science for Life

Espinosa:”Science must be more often associated with development”

Proclamation of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development by the United Nations General Assembly

Contributions to an International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development

Make democracy work better for the climate

Linking Mechanisms to Soil Functions to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Sun's powerpoint presentation

Scientific redemption for ocean plastic pollution

Dabkowska: “We need more collaboration to achieve the SDGs”

How to get more women in science

A symposium in India

A Virtual Forum for Latin American Chemists

Phytoremediation techniques guarantee agriculture safety in high geological background regions

Cordier:”Education is the best way to cross all kind of barriers”

Silk Road Civilization Evolution and Climate and Environment Change

A window for approaching the human sciences

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Unlocking the power of citizen science for monitoring health and wellbeing

The conference's flyer

Geography and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities

Utilization of Carbon Dioxide Resource for Sustainable Development

Komendantova: “How could science help social changes for sustainability to happen?”

An International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development

How Nobel Prize Laureates Contribute to Sustainable Development

Fred Kucharski and Adnan Abid of ICTP's Earth System Physics section

El Niño: history of a meteorological phenomenon

Women in crystallography project

Understanding Climate Change Risks for Cities

Meadows: “Geography is at the nexus of the social and the natural sciences, as is sustainability”

A Brazilian university launches an award to honor women in science

IYBSSD celebrations in Ghana

Leading Scientists Urge Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining

A new Arturo Falaschi conference in Trieste

Mimicking Nature: Making Efficient and Sustainable Biocatalysts

Bailey: “We cannot wait for another generation”

8th International Conference on Women in Physics

Inequality Across Scales, Space, Time and Domains

Applications for TeachersCOP are now open

A Silk Road Conference

Effects of Climate Change on Future Plant Herbivore Interactions

Trubnikov: “Particle physics gives contribution to healthcare, materials and energy production”

Conference in China for the International Year of Mineralogy

Webinars for Gender Equality in Science

Astronomy for Development: Case Studies

Connecting Chemical Worlds

Exploring the connection between Arctic climate change and extreme weather events in mid-latitudes

Rousseau: “We may pass the tipping point without feeling it”

Spanish Chemists Celebrate IYBSSD

Chinese Academy of Sciences Organization for IYBSSD

A Circumpolar Assessment of the Connections between Ice, Ocean, Climate, Environment and Life

The event's flyer

International School of Crystallography in Latin America

Assessing the current state of the planet and the future environment through ice core records

Quy Nhon hosts the Advanced Summer School in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability – Symposium

‘European Code of Conducts for Research Integrity’ updated

A computer cluster on renewable energies for Cuba

Basic Sciences Provide Solutions to Environmental Problems

Zlatan Vasovic

Vasovic: International cooperation needed to promote basic sciences

A New Era of Ground-breaking Climate and Sustainability Science

Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability – High-Level Summit

Uganda must plug gender, funding gaps in science

African volcanologists organize first international workshop

Towards an International Decade of Sciences for Action towards Sustainability

Yiash Gurbani

Yiash Gurbani: Global conversation on sustainable future necessary

Your attention please!

The Asia-Pacific School and Workshop on Gravitation and Cosmology

Sustainability science, understanding, co-constructing, transforming

Conference (Paris): Planetary limits and sustainability issues

Anchors of the 24 Hours Program

VIDEO: 24 Hours Virtual Global Program on IYBBSD

Ruhi Chitre

Ruhi Chitre: Science always offer practical solution to problems

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Globalization of social sciences and its public vocation

Science action flyer

VIDEO: Science Action! – The special edition to celebrate IYBSSD

Jayati Ghosh

Addressing inequality will help address climate change – Jayati Ghosh

HFSP Science Summit flyer

Paris hosts ‘HFSP Science Summit’ connecting basic life science

VIDEO: World nations pledge more support for IYBSSD

Merieme Chadid

Merieme Chadid: ‘Global community must take action to achieve 17 SDGs’

One of the panels at the African Continental Conference on basic Sciences for Transformation

Investment in science key to transforming African economies

A DNA image

DNA: More about its discovery and impacts on health, others

Project's flyer

What is Health Project +1.5ºC?

Hans Peter Beck

Hans Peter Beck: ‘Science is part of human culture across the world’

Prof. Mansurah Abdulazeez (first left) with other guests at the celebration of IYBSSD in BUK

BUK: How Nigerian university celebrated IYBSSD

The 30x30 Conservation Action Focus flyer

30×30 conservation program launched for 2023 Ocean Day

Karen Halberg

Karen Halberg: ‘I hope IYBSSD will help reduce inequalities in the world’

The lottery card

Spanish lottery

IYBSSD, 8 other organisations to host scientific symposium

AFRAMED: Supporting research training through remote measurements

Flyer of the scientific conference

Time to rehabilitate plurilingualism in science

Radio interviews to celebrate IYBSSD

Umezuruike Linus Opara

UL Opara: ‘With research infrastructure, young Africans will perform wonders’

Images of IUPAC, and its initiatives

IUPAC and ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies in Chemistry’

Public et scientifiques lors du colloques Sciences ouvertes au Sud en octobre 2022. Image prise par Patrice Brehmer pour l'IRD.

Open Science in the South

Engaging childhood, primary school children on earth science

24-hour online with basic sciences for sustainable development

Dr. Hana Matar from the British University in Egypt answers a trainee's question during a tour of the laboratory within the university's Nanotechnology Research Centre.

An opportunity for budding African entrepreneurs in nanotech

Barbora Bruant Gulejova

Barbora Gulejova: ‘Interest of younger generation in STEM is decreasing’

Prof. Ellis Owusu-Dabo

Make science attractive at all educational levels – Ghanaian VC

The event's flyer

Students are inspired to solve Africa’s science problems

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More education opportunities for girls reduce deaths in children

6th Workshop on Energy for Sustainable Science at Research Infrastructures

Antoine Kouchner

Antoine Kouchner: ‘Science has many things to say. It should be heard’

The "Taipei Science Day" is now in its ninth year, and the VIP guests at the opening ceremony hold the representative of the event - the eternal tung flower (bamboo dragonfly) and operate together.

10,000 students, parents attend ‘Taipei Science Day’

Science X Sustainability" MRT Painted Train

“Science X Sustainability” train turned into classroom

52 participants to attend ‘Young Scientists Summer Program’

Special Event at the United Nations

Xing QU at the webinar

Promoting knowledge, applications of industrial mathematics

Ursula Bassler

Ursula Bassler: “Without research, there won’t be breakthroughs’

Sciences Academy debates ‘Basic Science for Sustainable Development’

At seminar, Ghanaian scientists, researchers celebrate IYBSSD

The Next Scientific Decade flyer

Science for Water Solutions Decade

Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa: national, regional and local mixes

Luther Castillo

Luther Castillo: How science should respond to people’s needs

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EVENT: 20th National Science and Technology Week in Brazil

The YouTube webinar on Nikola Tesla

VIDEO: Nikola Tesla, the Scientist behind the Genius

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Uncommon things about nano-refrigerators

Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development at the United Nations General Assembly

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17 OAD projects creating impact, globally

Luc Bergé

Luc Berge: ‘We want to unify the world through science’

12th GSA Research Seminar and Poster Presentations

Why scientists should be mindful of their research works

Group Photo of the Speakers

EVENT: Large research infrastructure for basic science

The Chemistry Summer School flyer

’15th Chemistry Postgraduate School’ in June 2023

ISC Lecture: “Geospatial Information-Enabled SDGs Monitoring”

Nuannuan high school female students shared the method and results of sea turtle roll call. (Photographed by reporter Peng Ziying)

Sea museaum hosts scientific activity for IYBSSD

Nicole Elleuche

Nicole Elleuche: ‘We can accelerate understanding of basic science’

BACK TO BASICS: A gathering of Africa’s top physics students at ASP 2022 at Nelson Mandela University. Picture: HEATHER DUGMORE

100 years of physics

Delegates at the conference

How scientists discussed DNA functions at conference

Microbes. Credit: Science

Save the microbes to save the planet: A call to action

The G8-G20 joint statements book

BOOK: G8-G20 Joint Statements from Science Academies

Thijs van Kolfschoten

Van Kolschoten: ‘Politicians need to finance research of scientists’

Michael Meadows

Harnessing basic sciences for sustainable development

The conference's flyer

VIDEOS: Conference on basic sciences, development

IAHS full meaning

‘IAHS Working Group on Hydrology History’ formed

Porites lobata is one of the most common corals in the Indo-Pacific region and is considered a resilient coral species. Copyright: Ryan McMinds. (CC BY 2.0).

Scientists identify coral species withstanding ocean warming

Bethany Elora Higgins

Women in Science: Bethany Elora Higgins

Kathy Whaler

Kathy Whaler: IUGG, Others planning a ‘decade of science’

Reimagining: new humans, new society, new higher education

The seminar's flyer

Seminar on climate change education

Laureates, their teachers and the organizers at the grand ceremony of the Vietnamese Crystal Growing Competition in the period 2019–2022.

Vietnamese crystallography competition reaches its 9th edition

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Conference on physics education holds in Sofia

Why scientific knowledge should remain as public good

Mathieu Denis

Mathieu Denis: “Why ISC promotes sustainable development”

IYBSSD to promote inclusion in basic sciences – Spiro

Li Li's Research Group, Qiqihar University

Chemist is Cool! – an exhibition for IYBSSD

A Swedish forest

Scientists uncover widespread cutting of Sweden’s forests

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An Astronomy Forum from China

Participants in the first seminar on crystallography in The Gambia.

Crystallography raises in Western Africa

LS Shashidara

Shashidara: “People should use basic sciences to solve problems’

Michel Spiro, president of IUPAP (Photo: CERN)

Michel Spiro: basic sciences essential for achieving SDGs

Some of the Dayeh University firefighting program students

How Taiwan university promotes science, disaster education

Microalgues dans des tubes à essai

Microalgae could be the future of global food security

Maths Day

Mathematics for Everyone

Forest fires are a major contributory factor to forest degradation in the Amazon. Copyright: Serfor-Perú (Public domain image)

‘More than half of the Amazon damaged or felled’

Catherine Jami

Catherine Jami: “World leaders should take science seriously’

Enrique Forero

OPINION: Basic sciences and sustainable development

Elisama Vieira

WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Elisama Vieira

Amador Menéndez holds a glass that captures solar radiation at the Asturian Press Club.

When human beings sleep less

Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability – Call for abstracts

Blastocrithidia nonstop parasitises the shield bug, Eysarcoris aeneus, captured in the Bohemian Paradise Protected Landscape Area.

Czech researchers discover DNA of unknown parasite

Mansurah Abdulazeez

Mansurah Abdulazeez: “Why young Africans should embrace basic sciences”

Maria Jose Lallena

Between innovation and ‘development time’

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A Mumbai University Hosts Symposium on Basic Sciences and Sustainable Development

Martin Farley is Europe’s first full-time sustainable laboratory specialist

Fighting for sustainable science – One Lab at a Time

From fire to space: three lectures proposed by GeoUnions

Nadia Haider processing food samples in Paul Hebert Centre for DNA Barcoding and Biodiversity Studies, Aurangabad, India. (Photo: Nadia Haider)

Shielding plants from stress

Javier Garcia Martinez: “It’s important to invent a circular chemistry”

Some infectious bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics. But mathematical models could help design alternative treatments to defeat them.

Fighting superbugs with mathematical models

Internet photo of one of the 2021 edition finalists

VIDEOS: How to engage the public with science

Sharda University celebrates IYBSSD2022

How ICTP’s activities are promoting SDGs

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When ecosystem services provided by trees compete

2022 ‘International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry’

The discussion forum flyer

A forum on ‘basic sciences for sustainable development’

The webinar's flyer

WEBINAR: Building transformative pathways…

Apply for IUPAP’s ‘Early Career Scientist Award’

How the two SKA sites in Australia and South Africa will look when the telescopes are complete. Copyright: Courtesy of SKAO images. (CC BY 3.0)

Awaiting the world’s biggest telescope in 2028

Polio vaccination campaign in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria in 2019. Conflicts such as those in north eastern Nigeria can hinder immunisation efforts. Copyright: Rotary International

The challenge of controlling polio in war zones

Maternal care in Hargeisa, Somalia. Despite progress on women’s health and rights in the last 50 years, stark inequalities remain in access to contraceptives and health services to support safe pregnancy and birth, a special report says. Copyright: Sarah Bones/CARE. (CC BY 2.0). This image has been cropped.

Drugs companies must address ‘marginalization’ of women

Delegates at the Open Science Forum organized by DDE

Michel Spiro, UNESCO Chief speak at ‘Open Science Forum’

The Tropics account for 40% of the world’s total surface area and are host to approximately 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Photo-FAO IPPC

For biodiversity to thrive…

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OPPORTUNITY: Training for solar photovoltaic in Africa

Scientists performing research analysis in a lab

Foundation donates $3m for science in Ukraine

TRIUMF strengthening research opportunities

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For scientists and doctors to understand Parkinson’s disease

The IAU calls on our community to support the aims of the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change

6 countries fighting climate change with legislation

Scientists performing research analysis in a lab

408 European researchers awarded €636m ‘Starting Grants’

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2 IYBSSD projects among OAD’s 19 selected proposals

Jan Havlík with the winning photo on his left, capturing the reaction of bromine with aluminium.

How photogenic is science?

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Hikes in energy prices threat to Czech Academy of Sciences

Scientists conducting research in a laboratory. The COVID-19 outbreak is accelerating a trend towards research publications focussed on the global South - Image by felixioncool Pixabay

Victimized researchers get platform to report violent threats

The competition flyer

COMING UP: Thai Science Camp

Josiane Dantas Viana Barbosa

WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Josiane Dantas Viana Barbosa

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VIDEO: Solar energy’s contribution to sustainable energy

On-site participants (photo: G. Ortolani/IAP)

Calling for a sustainable research environment

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Youth science forum on “Physics for a Better World”

The National Science Council promotes the "Science X Sustainability" painted train activity. From now on, 3D designs will be drawn in Taipei MRT cars, with themes of nature, ocean, forest, carbon footprint, etc., turning serious scientific knowledge into people-friendly immersion Experience, which includes photos of endangered or even extinct butterflies in nature provided by scholars. (Photo by reporter Wu Boxuan)

Trains painted with various ‘scientific concepts’ launched

Jeff Dai taking SQM measurements in Gaomeigu, Yunnan, China. Photo courtesy of Jeff Dai.

Apply for IDA’s ‘Light Monitor Grant Program’

Rakotonarivo, bottom centre, with some local people in a small village at the forest frontier in Madagascar in August 2020.

Empowering forestland peoples

GYA’s ‘fundamental research report’ now available

Participants in the Ministerial Session of the TWAS 16th General Conference discuss issues related to basic science after delivering their initial remarks.

Advocating for basic science

Edmondo Cirielli, Italy's Deputy-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

TWAS and Italy: pursuing a shared vision

RYAS

Rwanda Young Academy of Science Joins GYA

Francesco Petruccione, Director of NITheCS (seated, left) and ICTP Director Atish Dabholkar (seated, right) signing the new agreement between the two institutes

Strengthening computational science in S/Africa

A South African woman in her farm. Credit: Gates Foundation

Finding equity in climate mitigation finance

TWAS-Lenovo Science Award winner Fu Bojie, left, taking part in ecological restoration field work in the Loess Plateau of China in 2022. [Photo provided]

Science of balancing nature and civilization

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Research paper reveals more on ‘LEARNING’

Image of the BlueWalker 3 satellite

IAU worried over BlueWalker 3 satellite’s impact on astronomy

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IAU’s videos celebrating female astronomers out

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OAD to continue operating in S/Africa till 2027

Human Occupied Vehicle Fendouzhe retrieved by Tansuoyihao (Image by IDSSE)

Scientists dive to one of ocean’s deepest regions

High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxide (also referred to as REBCO) power transmission cable used at CERN / Câble de transmission électrique supraconducteur à haute température (HTS) en REBCO (oxyde mixte de cuivre, de baryum et de terres rares) utilisé au CERN (Image: CERN)

CERN partners Airbus on future clean aviation

Children from a favela (Morro da Providencia) plant traditional herbs used in Afro-Indigenous cultures

OAD PROJECTS: Astronomy as fuel of life…

IUPAC seeks host for its 2029 General Assembly, Congress

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Protecting and connecting nature across Europe

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OAD PROJECTS: Video astronomy lessons for school children

IIASA researchers among world’s most cited

Delegates at the KAST Roundtable Discussion

Korean Academy’s roundtable discussion on basic sciences

Prof. Fu Bojie

Meet ‘2022 TWAS-Lenovo Science Award’ winner

A cropped version of the ICCE 2022 event flyer

‘COVID19 school closures will affect inequalities in adult skills’

The Tropics account for 40% of the world’s total surface area and are host to approximately 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Photo-FAO IPPC

BCOMING: Curbing outbreak of epidemics via biodiversity

Des représentants des communautés de première ligne, des groupes indigènes et des activistes climatiques manifestent devant les salles de conférence de la COP27 à Sharm El-Sheikh, en Égypte. Les nations riches ont accepté de créer un fonds pour les pertes et dommages. Copyright : Madeleine Race / Amis de la Terre International, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (Cette image est recadrée).

When climate leaders endorsed compensation deal at COP27

IMU-CDC

Applications open for IMU’s ‘Volunteer Lecturer Program’

PODCAST: Science in times of crisis

A South African woman in her farm. Credit: Gates Foundation

Battling climate change: research findings to support decision-making

Kahoot poster

Science Kahoot: a varsity competition for basic sciences

Prof. Stavros Katsanevas

Stavros Katsanevas, a world-class physicist, is gone

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ESCAPE and efforts to promote ‘Open Science’

Tackling climate change difficult without involving women

SnT2023 Banner

Earth, Nuclear Test, 3 others are themes of SnT 2023

Kangbéni Dimobe collects data on Pterocarpus erinaceus in the Total Wildlife Reserve of Bontioli in Burkina Faso, in March 2022. (Photo: Kangbéni Dimobe)

A forest steward’s love for conservation in Burkina Faso

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FOCUS: A look at biotechnology in Horn of Africa

The SRI2023 flyer

‘Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress’ for June 2023

Relationship between LEBS Toolkit and SDGs

Toolkit for addressing development issues using astronomy

12 e-waste articles needed for ‘Chemistry Teacher International’

‘Basic Sciences and Sustainable Development Conference’ report

Astronomy based hackathon events have been organized in multiple African countries to train students on data science skills. Guidelines are available to support groups organize their own hackathons

OAD PROJECTS: Big Data Hackathon

World Science Day for Peace and Development flyer

Celebrating ‘World Science Day for Peace and Development’

Preparing a needle for injection. Researchers plan to roll out a new malaria vaccine next year after tests on children in West Africa. Copyright: Demissew Bizuwerk/UNICEF Ethiopia, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Developers to rollout ‘most effective’ malaria vaccine

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‘Minafin Prize’ of Academy of Sciences launched

FELLOWSHIP: Condensed Matter Physics Opportunities

The competition flyer

NameExoWorlds 2022: a contest for astronomy enthusiasts

A farmer in Kenya's lower Nyando area trials climate adaptation interventions. Copyright: V. Atakos (CCAFS). (CC BY-NC 2.0)

‘Radical collaboration’ essential for climate adaptation

Future Earth Taipei, Taipei Hub join IYBSSD2022

IUCr launches ‘Raw Data Letters’

Pilot workshops to promote mental health using astronomy were organized at a children's support centre in Armenia and for elderly people in Spain

OAD PROJECTS: Astronomy for mental health

‘International Year of Science Engagement 2027’ gets partner

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How science can help cities, firms operate in earth system

A mangrove forest vegetation

Scientists research climatic factors of last 2,000 years

Young inventors at the Science Festival in Belarus

18,000 people attend ‘Science Festival’ in Belarus

Internet photo on erosion-debris flow... Credit: ResearchGate

Georgian researcher produces monograph on ‘erosion-debris’

Marino Guarín, president of the Cali School of Astronomy, explaining the construction of a sundial to a group of students.

An approach to the Sun, our star

Climate-resilient future (nature)

Academic system and climate sustainability – REPORT

The little owl hunts rodents and larger invertebrates.

‘Little owl on the brink of extinction’

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Academies unveil report on human microbiome research

Researchers analyze the human brain components on computer screen Credit: FRQ

7 ‘mega’ research projects in Netherlands get AIRF grants

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Model improves accuracy for remote sensing interpretation

YVONNE MASCARENHAS

Mascarenhas – Celebrating Latin America’s most productive researcher

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25 countries partner on health inequalities research

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Research initiative needed to achieve climate-neutral society

A woman scientist examining agronomic and soil management practices in Western Kenya. Gender experts say women remain “systematically excluded” from research, leading to inherent scientific biases. Copyright: CIAT/GeorginaSmith, (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

‘Only 20% of climate change studies written by women’

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OAD PROJECTS: Astronomy for students through app and game

Tshilidzi Marwala

TWAS Fellow, Marwala, appointed UN University Rector

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OAD PROJECTS: Rediscovering identity through astronomy

Christina Moberg

Free research, imagination and bold ideas…

The Green Chemistry Postgraduate Summer School flyer

15th Green Chemistry School for July 2023

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, internationally acclaimed African scientist who served as the first female president of Mauritius from 2015 to 2018.

Africa’s youth – veritable resource for science, sustainability

A cropped version of the Science Fair flyer

Argentina organizes ‘Science Fair’ for IYBSSD2022

That ISC, partners’ report on Ukraine Crisis

What celebrating IYBSSD2022 means for Cuba – Álvarez Díaz

A citizen science graphic. Credit: California Academy of Sciences

Citizen science for addressing global challenges

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Sustainable path to eliminating hunger in Africa

Mohamed Ali Houmed, President of the National Assembly, Djibouti

Djibouti launches campaign for human rights’ protection

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley addresses COP26

7 women parliamentarians leading climate change war

Maths Day

‘2023 International Day of Mathematics’ gets theme

Inmates at an HIV testing exercise at Westville prison in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Ending stigma and discrimination will be key to winning the battle against AIDS. Copyright: GCIS, South Africa, (CC BY-ND 2.0). This image has been cropped.

Alarming inequalities stifling global war against AIDS

Researchers training on malaria diagnostics in Nigeria. Research across Africa has been disrupted by a governance crisis at the continent's science academy, sources say. Copyright: U.S. Army, (CC BY 2.0).

Research disrupted as Academy of Sciences’ crisis lingers

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IYBSSD stories: For a sustainable Brazil

A research work carried out by a group of students from the University of the city of Dà Nang (Center). Photo: VNA/CVN

Basic sciences – a lever for Vietnam’s development

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ALLEA – GYA – STM webinar on peer review Nov 17

A solar panel

Researchers boost solar cell efficiency with perovskites

44 African researchers win 5-year ARISE Fellowship

The conference flyer

Abstracts called for 4th NAS Scientific Conference

IAP’s LinkedIn page hits 2k followers

Ukraine flag

Rebuilding Ukraine’s science, research and innovation

The EPWS' conference flyer

EPWS ‘Annual Conference 2022’ in November

The competition flyer

IAU launches competition to mark OAD @10

Dr. Alex Stanley

Alex Stanley, the first IUCr Chief Executive Officer

The Konrad Lorenz IYBSSD opening ceremony event.

When Konrad Lorenz celebrated IYBSSD launching

A cropped version of the ICCE 2022 event flyer

Chemistry education is the way forward – IUPAC President

Calls open for 2022 Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship

Assessing the impact of a severe drought due to two consecutive poor rainy seasons in Ethiopia. An intense drought has gripped parts of Eastern Africa leading to failed crops and food insecurity. Copyright: European Union/ECHO/Melaku Asefa, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Water scarcity among top 10 food security threats

Hiraku Nakajima

Nakajima, Sorger, others emerge IMU new exco

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 33 (Innovative thinking)

Prof. Duncan Haldane lights the scientific torch at the ICISE Center in Quy Nhon City

Nobel laureate lit ‘scientific torch’ to herald IYBSSD

Russian varsity plans international Olympiad for IYBSSD

A subtropical forest in China. Credit: UN Environment Programme

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 23 (Forest dimensions)

The canopy of Nyungwe forest national park in Rwanda. Ecologist Myriam Mujawamariya says Rwanda is focusing heavily on repairing environmental damage and there are ambitious plans to expand tree cover. Copyright: Brian Harries, (CC BY 2.0).

Award-winning research tests heat tolerance by trees

‘Open Science in the South conference’ returns

350 European science bodies agree on reforming research

‘Young Academy of Ireland’ established

Physics Professor Trân Thanh Vân speaks at the opening of the international scientific symposium in Quy Nhon.

170 scientists from 13 countries at IYBSSD 1st event

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In November, WOW Physics!

Biochemists examine bacteria samples from Argentina’s hospitals at Malbrán Institute in Buenos Aires to test for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A WHO report says almost 5 million deaths worldwide, were linked to AMR in 2019. Copyright: Sarah Pabst/WHO

‘Accelerating new, existing vaccines’ use curb drug resistance’

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 35 (2022 is IYBSSD)

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 34 (Thành Đạt @WIPO, France)

Professor IIse C.F. Ipsen. Credit: Amy Rager/Serenity Photography

Ipsen to deliver Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture at ICIAM 2023

IAU, Visegrad launch scheme for Astronomy students

Skyscrapers. Credit: AirFixture

Turning skyscrapers into batteries

Prof Jeff Camkin

Open science not just for researchers, academics – Camkin

IAGA offers sponsorship for 6th IAGA Summer School

City of Moscow

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 32 (System of education)

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IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 31 (Mansaf)

Peter Gluckman, ISC President

Principles and values in science cooperation

Artistic reconstruction of the yunnanozoan from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota shows basket-like pharyngeal skeletons (Image by YANG Dinghua)

Yunnanozoans are the oldest known stem vertebrates

File image used to depict soil temperature. Credit: Dreamstime.com

How soil temperature fuels Nitric Oxide emission

Riverside fish breeding in Zambia. One scientist has said that recent global estimates confirm that about 34 per cent of marine wild fish stocks are overfished and 66 per cent are fished within biologically sustainable levels. Copyright: Agness Chileya/WorldFish, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Use wild species sustainably for world food needs’

Students of Goiânia College during the exhibition

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 27 (Goiânia College)

Flyer of the ICTP second lecture

ICTP organizes lecture series for IYBSSD2022

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Proposals wanted for ICTP’s ‘2023 Scientific Calendar’

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 29 (Thematic page)

Electron microscope image of Salmonella Typhi, which causes typhoid fever. Drug-resistant typhoid is now spreading worldwide from South Asia. Copyright: Alain Grillet/Sanofi Pasteur, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Need for ‘global response’ as typhoid resists antibiotics

Les membres de SEA SAN lors de leur réunion

Asia Science Network holds 1st physical meeting

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 4 (SDGs and ISC’s mission)

The GYA membership call flyer

Global Young Academy launches call for new members

IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld

IIASA helmsman gets ISC’s highest honour

Maths Day

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 25 (Mathematics)

Winners of the CERN Beamline for Schools 2022 (top to bottom): the Club de Física Enrico Fermi team (Vigo, Spain / Image: Club de Física Enrico Fermi); the STA students from the Elsewedy Technical Academy (Cairo, Egypt / Image: Elsewedy Technical Academy); and the Supercooling team from the École du Sacré-Coeur (Reims, France / Image: École du Sacré-Coeur).

High school students win ‘CERN Beamline Competition’

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How institutions fighting COVID are perceived

A file of the Arctic.

2 Estonian Profs get €60,000 grant for Arctic studies

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 30 (Open Science)

470 international scholars become ‘Academia Europaea’ members

A file photo of a human hands holding bioplastic materials

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 28 (Bioplastic)

A subtropical forest in China. Credit: UN Environment Programme

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 26 (At environment’s service)

IAVCEI Scientific Assembly flyer

‘IAVCEI Scientific Assembly’ in N/Zealand shifted

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Lovelace-Babbage: the new computer science prize in France

Andrei Silva (right) with his supervisor, Prof. Jorge Fernando Silva de Menezes

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 26 (UFRB student)

Applications open for ‘INGSA Francophonie Network’ creation

A South African woman in her farm. Credit: Gates Foundation

Tipping Points: Climate Crisis, Positive Transformation

1st Latin American Industrial-Applied Maths Congress

A file image of the IAU Astronomy Prizes' winners

Winners of IAU’s newly-launched astronomy prizes

File image of delegates at a past edition of CAP

Applications to host CAP 2024 opened

The Science Festival Flyer

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 24 (Science Festival)

IMU signs Science in Exile ‘Declaration’

The earthquake and tsunami that struck Indonesia on September 28, 2018 left more than 2,000 people dead and 5,000 missing. © Wikimedia Commons - Devina Andiviaty

Using gravitational signals for Tsunami early warning

Almah Kuambu and a prospective assistive technology user during a National Orthotic and Prosthetic Services outreach programme in Popondetta in southern Papua New Guinea. Copyright: National Orthotic and Prosthetic Services (PNG).

Worldwide, about 1bn people lack access to disability aids

Introducing ‘Science Advice Resource Centre’

In Spain, IYBSSD2022 ‘fever’ is everywhere

CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes (Image: CERN)

Brazil becomes Associate Member of CERN

Gerhard Herzberg

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 19 (Herzberg)

Her Excellency Ambassador Catherine Colonna and the Head of the Director-General’s Office Dr Simon Berry signing an accession agreement between the French government and the SKA Observatory. Credit: France in the UK

France sets to join SKAO as full member

Deena Shrestha

Deena Shrestha: feats of an iconic Nepalese scientist

A sickle cell screening programme for newborns at Kumasi General Hospital in Ghana. Early diagnosis and education of parents is considered vital for the treatment of babies with sickle cell disease. Copyright: Brent Stirton/Getty Images for Novartis

Sickle cell screening advised for African newborns

SLP flyer

GYA’s ‘Science Leadership Programme’ video out

Night view of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. (Photo: Zhejiang University)

16th ‘TWAS General Conference’ for November 2022

File photo of a report done by EASAC

Rejecting subsidies for ‘Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage’

FICOR flyer

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 25 (FICOR)

A nanotech imaging device, tiny enough to fit on a smartphone camera lens, has the potential to make the diagnosis of certain diseases accessible and affordable for people. Copyright: Image by StockSnap from Pixabay. This image has been cropped.

Nanotech tool detects diseases using smartphone

Wolfgang Lutz

Wolfgang Lutz now IIASA Deputy Director General

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French varsity joins IAU ‘Astronomy Office for Education’

Scientists performing research analysis in a lab

Malaysian Academy to host ‘Women in Science Forum’

Earth from space at night. Credit: SciTechDaily

Measuring global poverty from space

René-Just Haüy

Website for René-Just Haüy’s 200th death anniversary

Aïssatou Diawara, technical advisor, Global Institute for Disease Elimination Copyright: (Courtesy photo).

Countries where gender inequalities are endemic – Diawara

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 14 (A Commission in Cuba)

Northern State Medical University

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 21 (Medical Forum)

Richard Catlow

How IAP, ISC are creating impact through science

Delegates at the virtual launching of the GreenSCI project.

‘Green Science’ project worth 223,500 euros launched

Medical personnel at Trinity Care Foundation reading a poster about community outreach on Universal Health Coverage Day amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 in rural Karnataka, India. Scientists have warned that COVID-19 will remain uncontrolled in many countries unless coordinated action is taken. Copyright: Trinity Care Foundation, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

COVID-19 could derail SDGs in the next 5 years

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IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 22 (For Earth Day)

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, internationally acclaimed African scientist who served as the first female president of Mauritius from 2015 to 2018.

Shattering barriers hindering girls in science, by Gurib-Fakim

Cars on the street of Lagos, a city in Nigeria

challenges, opportunities of decarbonizing transportation in Africa

Mexico made history by reaching gender parity in Parliament for the first time in 2021. © Eyepix/NurPhoto via AFP

More nations attain gender parity as women legislators increase

Prof. Helen Rees

Rees receives French ‘National Order of Merit’ award

Community engagement in land restoration. A landmark UN report is urging immediate investment in large-scale land restoration to mitigate the harms caused by degradation affecting half the world’s population. Copyright: UNCCD photos

Land restoration needed as degradation hits world’s poorest

Winners and organizers of DOW-CST award 2020-2021 in a group photograph

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 20 (DOW-CST award)

As IUPAP clocks 100 years

Michel Spiro, president of IUPAP (Photo: CERN)

Spiro tells Korea: Organize events, mobilize citizens for IYBSSD

File photo depicting regenerative agriculture. Credit: Internet

Fighting climate change via ‘regenerative agriculture’

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Developing drought-resistant crops for food crisis

File photo of some stats about Israel. Credit: OECD iLibrary

Sustainable well-being in Israel

Volunteers remove invasive English ivy in Berwyn Heights, MD.

Community science for protecting tree canopies

2022 Building Bridges' conference flyer

Barcelona sets for ‘2022 Building Bridges’ conference

Frontiers in Ocean Observing cover

Book titled “Frontiers in Ocean Observing” unveiled

The postdoctoral fellowship flyer

Applications on for ‘Earth System Physics Fellowship’

Students from the Islamic University in Uganda's female campus studying the human body. A recent report into gender parity in education indicates lack of data on science education from low-income countries. Copyright: Courtesy of Islamic University in Uganda.

Science missing in poor countries’ education data

IAPS School Day 2019 in Noida, India.

IUCr, Physics students worldwide sign MoU for collaboration

Dennis Parnell Sullivan

And the ‘2022 Abel Prize’ winner is… Dennis Sullivan

Don Zagier

Zagier is pioneer holder of ICTP’s Ramanujan Chair

SCAR offers 5 research fellowships worth $75,000

Gisozi Rwanda genocide memorial statue

How IPB celebrated 130 years of promoting peace

La mesure de la pression artérielle est l'un des moyens de dépister les maladies cardiaques. Copyright : Mike Cerrillo, (CC BY-SA 2.0)

$140bn needed to tackle lifestyle diseases by 2030

Dr. Toshi Tajima

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 17 (TAE boss to IUPAP)

To make ‘open science’ a reality, key issues must be advanced

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 16 (ASSAf, IYBSSD coordinator)

Delegates at the 144th IPU Assembly

When IPU mobilized 110 parliaments for climate emergency

Maths Day

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 15 (For UNESCO toolkit)

Selecting best potato seeds. Copyright: N.Ronoh/CIP, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Food security: AfricaBP to sequence 100,000 species

The GYA International Conference flyer

Japan agog for ‘GYA International Conference of Young Scientists’

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 18 (International Years)

‘Adopting UNESCO open-science recommendation, a great milestone’

A file photo depicting IYBSSD2022

IYBSSD2022: stories of a scientific year… 10 (UN and development goals)

‘Open Science for Everyone’ webinar June 14

Chapman and Prof Zou

Chapman, Zou appointed IUCr editors

Une pharmacie dans un camp médical au Sri Lanka. Les médecins du pays lancent maintenant un appel aux dons pour soutenir le système de santé, qui a été fortement touché par la crise économique actuelle. Copyright : Direct Relief (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Cette image a été recadrée.

How economic crisis crippled health services in Sri Lanka

Sheila Jasanoff

Meet Sheila Jasanoff, ‘2022 Holberg Prize’ winner

Portugal joins SCOR, becomes latest member

Grains of wheat. Credit: Nairametrics

Using genome editing, scientists develop disease-resistant wheat

PARI conference flyer

In July, ‘Public Awareness of Research Infrastructure’ conference

A woman holding a drone at a farm in Uganda. According to technology experts, women in the global South are increasingly being left behind despite an upward trend and growth in digitisation of agriculture. Copyright: CTA ACP-EU (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Women sidelined in agri-tech revolution, experts say

Horizon Europe project's flyer

CERN flags off 3 ‘Horizon Europe’ projects

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IAU’s Centre for ‘Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky’

Internet photo depicting map of Africa. Credit: Green Afrika

Africa’s future amid 4th Industrial Revolution, ICT education

ICTP scientists Ali Hassanali (left) and Joan Elias Miró

ICTP scientists win 5-year research grants

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‘Why women scientists must be brave’

OAD seeks proposals to boost sustainable development

Scientists performing research analysis in a lab

PAS, CNR announce call for ‘mobility projects’

School of fish in the coral reefs in New Caledonia © IRD - Jean-Michel Boré

Improving biodiversity monitoring in Europe

For advancing open science, IIASA researchers honoured

Smart bra inventor Kemisola Bolarinwa. The Nigerian invention uses ultrasound technology to detect breast cancer in the early stages. Copyright: Kemisola Bolarinwa