In this interview during the opening ceremony of IYBSSD, Karen Hallberg of Centro Atómico de Bariloche, Argentina, hopes that the celebration of IYBSSD will contribute to reducing all forms of global inequality.
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…
On 29 January this year, budding entrepreneurs from across Africa gathered at the British University in Egypt for a UNESCO bootcamp which introduced them to the finer points of nanotechnology, among other special activities.
An IIASA study shows that maternal education, and particularly secondary education, plays a significant role in reducing deaths in newborns and children under five years of age, in both rural and urban areas of India.
An emeritus professor of Physics at the St Francis University, Nova Scotia, Canada, Michael Steinitz has advised scientists to be mindful of the consequences of their research works.
Haike Museum, in celebrating the “International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development”, recently held a scientific breakthrough activity designed by teachers and students of Nuannuan High School, China.
This programme setup for the IYBSSD and beyond aims to offer travel grants of 5k$ to early career researchers working in low-income countries and wishing to spend a couple of months in their alma mater (Western universities where they prepared their PhD) in order to keep a good scientific level. The selection committee is composed…
Michel Spiro, Chair of the Steering Committee of IYBSSD speaks on the role of women in science
What is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Michel Spiro, President, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), in an interview with Pesquisa FAPESP, said it is basic sciences.
On 14 March, the International Day of Mathematics will be celebrated worldwide
