A new global partnership programme backed by a trio of US government agencies is finding early success with a model that provides funding to researchers in developing nations
Academies of medicine across the world need to cooperate to enhance developing countries' ability to conduct, share and use their research, said Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford.
The International Year of Crystallography will bring global attention to a field which can be a major force for advancing knowledge and economic growth in the developing world.
TWAS gave John Fredy Barrera Ramirez, an optical physicist working on the use of light to encrypt data, the chance to conduct cutting-edge research in Argentina.
TWAS expresses its condolences and sorrow for the sudden and unexpected death Friday of journalist David Dickson, who founded SciDev.Net, the influential science development news website, in 2001.