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TWAS is pleased to announce the 'TWAS-Celso Furtado Prize in Social Sciences'. With funding from the Brazilian government for the next four years, the annual prize will carry a USD15,000 cash award
Science centres could help advance the cause of science-based development in Africa, says Jean-Pierre Ezin.
A profound personal experience that took place a decade ago has helped shape Jeremie Thouakesseh Zoueu's research agenda ever since.
Today 'Kangaroo Mother Care' helps millions of infants and mothers lead healthier lives. But more needs to be done to spread the word, says Nathalie Charpak
The nuclear accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi in Japan will slow but not stop the Arab region's recent efforts to embrace nuclear power
The EuroAfrica-ICT project, of which TWAS is a participant, has launched a database of African centres of excellence in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT).
The agenda for nutritional research in Africa should be led by African scientists, says Patrick Kolsteren, coordinator of the European Union 'Sunray' project.
TWAS's 22nd General Meeting was held in Trieste, Italy, at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), between 21 and 23 November 2011. The TWAS Committees and Council Meeting
Roseanne Diab, executive director of the Academy of Science of South Africa, talks about the involvement of scientists from the developing world in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Africa's most important resource are its people, and especially its young people, say Mohamed H.A. Hassan and Daniel Schaffer