Crystallography raises in Western Africa
In the last few months, two crystallographic seminars were organized by the African Crystallographic Association, in The Gambia and the Republic of Guinea.
Sciences fondamentales et développement soutenable : que faudrait-il changer dans nos recherches ?
La journée interroge la situation des sciences fondamentales dans le contexte du développement soutenable : fertilisations croisées, nouvelle dimension de l’éthique, soutenabilité des actions de recherche. Articulation entre savoirs fondamentaux et soutenabilité, éthique scientifique à l’heure de la crise écologique, pratiques de la recherche seront discutés sous forme d’interventions et de tables rondes de scientifiques…
OPINION: Basic sciences and sustainable development
Former President of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, Enrique Forero, explains how basic sciences foster sustainable development
When human beings sleep less
The world is experiencing an epidemic of sleep deprivation; we’re awake at night and half asleep during the day.
Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability – Call for abstracts
A cross disciplinary international seminar organized in Paris in June 2023 is calling for abstracts before 3 April 2023.
Czech researchers discover DNA of unknown parasite
A strange way to read DNA and produce proteins has been discovered in a protozoan parasite
Mansurah Abdulazeez: “Why young Africans should embrace basic sciences”
In this interview during the opening ceremony of IYBSSD, a Nigerian university scholar explains why the younger generation of Africans should study basic sciences’ courses.
Between innovation and ‘development time’
What is the challenge of every scientist? It is balancing an innovation and the time it takes for development, says Maria José Lallena, Director of the R&D center of the pharmaceutical company Lilly.
Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability – Science Summit
Basic research studies that are transdisciplinary in nature, create partnerships across the life sciences, social sciences, and environmental sciences and can greatly accelerate our transition to a more sustainable world. To support such collaborations, we need the support of policymakers, science funding leaders, universities, and those in government. In 2023, HFSP aims to be the…
Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability – International Symposium
The science communities working on the current “big ticket items” like climate change, mitigation and adaptation, energy transitions, biodiversity, food security, and other global challenges under the U.N. Agenda 2030, have been historically “disconnected” from the biological research in all its forms. Yet, scientists working in fields such as cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience,…
