8th International Conference on Women in Physics
Geographic diversity can be a key to reduce the gender gap in sciences, especially in physics
Sustainability science, understanding, co-constructing, transforming
IRD publishes the second volume of the booklet “Science of sustainability, understanding, co-constructing, transforming”, comprising 42 fact sheets on the science of sustainable solutions.
Globalization of social sciences and its public vocation
This article from the new edition of Ciência & Cultura points out how concepts, theories and discoveries of the human sciences contribute to the formulation of public policies aimed at facing the challenges of societies.
Addressing inequality will help address climate change – Jayati Ghosh
If climate change must be tackled, then inequality must also be addressed, says Professor Jayati Ghosh, who taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for nearly 35 years. She stated this in an interview with Frontiers Science News.
Merieme Chadid: ‘Global community must take action to achieve 17 SDGs’
In this interview during the opening ceremony of IYBSSD, Merieme Chadid, President of the Scientific Council of UNESCO’s International Basic Sciences Program, urged the international community to take action towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
BUK: How Nigerian university celebrated IYBSSD
Bayero University, Kano (BUK), in northwestern Nigeria, has joined the global community to celebrate the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD) 2022-2023.
International organizations and national laboratories play a crucial part in the fabric of the scientific community. As such they can play an important part in crisis management and sustainability. Sciences for sustainability which, although progressing rapidly, is often characterized by scientific, thematic, geographical, and organizational fragmentation that must be overcome. There is an opportunity that Big…
Open Science in the South
The second ‘Open Science in the South’ symposium held in Cotonou, Benin Republic, in October 2022, was a great success and resulted in many recommendations.
Synchrotron-light sources are super microscopes with different sets of experimental techniques. Those are powerful enough to reveal the tiniest and the most vital details about matter; revealing the unknown of physics, chemistry, biology, pharmaceuticals and biomedicine, as well as materials science, environment and agriculture, many industrial sectors, in addition to cultural heritage and archaeology. In…
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