TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, has elected 41 new members. The election took place during the opening day of the Academy's 25th anniversary meeting in Mexico City.
Beatriz Barbuy, an eminent Brazilian astrophysicist, and Roddam Narasimha, an internationally renowned Indian engineer and physicist have been awarded the 2008 Trieste Science Prize.
Big changes are taking place in science in the developing world. But not all countries are sharing in the growth of scientific knowledge, says Mohamed H.A. Hassan, executive director of TWAS
The world of science communications is changing at an unprecedented pace, says Nature’s editor-in-chief Philip Campbell, "making it hard to predict what the future will hold."