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The long journey to a rare disease diagnosis
Rare diseases constitute a major health issue in Europe: an estimated 30 million people live with one, and of these, 50% have not received...
Observations from space help scientists get one step ahead of the tiny but deadly mosquito
Each year, nearly three-quarters of a million people die from mosquito-borne diseases, and with climate change the problem is getting worse. EU researchers are...
Encourage today’s girls to become ‘tomorrow’s leading scientists and innovators’
In his message marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the UN chief on Friday called for an enabling environment where...
Currently there’s no cure for rare types of cystic fibrosis, but researchers are making significant advances
Current treatments for cystic fibrosis are not suitable for all patients. The lack of treatment options is distressing for people suffering from a rare...
If you’re not thinking about the climate impacts of thawing permafrost, you should be
Earth’s permafrost is thawing, and indigenous communities in the Arctic and scientists around the world say it’s high time this alarming loss of ground...
First Quantum Computing Guidelines Launched as Investment Booms
National governments have invested over $25 billion into quantum computing research and over $1 billion in venture capital deals have closed in the past...
Ethical aspects relating to cyberspace: Utilitarianism and deontology
Obviously web ethics must primarily be behavioural in nature. Its task is to serve as a tool for making decisions in morally difficult situations....
Reason, Science and Empathy: Interrelated Foundations of American Survival
“Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as...
Saudi keeps eye on religious ball in global competition for talent
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has tamed his kingdom’s ultra-conservative religious establishment and made hyper-nationalism rather than religion a pillar of a new...
The Complex World Order
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world order changed profoundly in 1989. The Soviet Union was dissolved, and it became a “unipolar”...