If there’s one thing we’ve got used to in the pandemic, it’s seeing our political leaders on TV standing next to scientists. So striking is the...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ten-point plan for a “green industrial revolution” to get the UK to net zero emissions by 2050 is a significant commitment. Although...
Hong Kong is rapidly developing as a widening fault-line between China and the international community after Beijing’s moves to tighten its grip on the former British...
The protesting women of Poland have captured the world’s attention. Since October, they’ve taken to the streets to protest restrictions on reproductive rights that were already...
This Nov. 20 marks 66 years since the United Nations established World Children’s Day. On the same day in 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted...
Jonathan Bamber, Author provided Greenland is the largest island in the world and on it rests the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere. If all...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea I’m part of a research team that has been following more than...
GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said it was “cautiously optimistic” about encouraging news on the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine. However, it added...
Following president-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the United States, a campaign video of him reading Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s verse adaptation of an ancient Greek play...
It is very exciting to hear another positive story about vaccine trial results – a good vaccine is the most likely way of ending the pandemic....