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Around the world, autism is forcing societies to rethink education, healthcare, employment and the meaning of belonging.

In Spain, the case of a boy from Seville with butterfly skin disease has exposed a deeper problem: life-changing medicines should not depend on television, social media pressure or a photograph with a regional president.

A Barcelona foundation links HIV care, clinical trials and vaccine research in the search for better treatment pathways

Mangroves sit at the centre of climate action, coastal resilience, community rights and disputes over green finance

New tools are shortening the path from laboratory idea to market, but access remains uneven

Thermal satellites are making heat visible at field, street and neighbourhood scale, with major implications for climate adaptation

A preventable disease is spreading where water systems, health services and public investment have failed

Research on psilocybin, MDMA and ibogaine is expanding, but safety, regulation and clinical evidence remain decisive.

HIFA argues that remote care cannot work fairly when patients, clinicians and policymakers lack trusted health information

A fast-growing science news platform says speed and independence can coexist, but the wider information climate makes that claim harder to test

Across Asia, governments, philanthropy and industry are reshaping research around competitiveness, influence and strategic technologies

Advanced materials, cell engineering and biological production are pushing the bioeconomy from research promise to factory-floor change

New malaria vaccines offer real promise, but delivery, trust and funding will decide whether that promise reaches children

Sensors, AI tools and remote decisions are widening access, but they may also redraw inequality, trust and clinical accountability

Volunteer-led citizen science is expanding research capacity, but its public value depends on access, trust and good design

From polluted air to biodiversity loss, public participation in research is changing how evidence is produced, challenged and used

A youth led campaign has helped push climate literacy from the margins towards the centre of education policy

Spain’s HIV scientists are helping turn rare breakthroughs into realistic remission strategies, while stigma and late diagnosis still slow progress

Vaccination, screening and public health policy can cut long term costs, but prevention still gets a small share of spending

A Yale and Columbia-led index ranks 180 countries and updates its metrics, as governments face widening trade-offs and data gaps

As upper secondary dropout remains high, civil society groups are targeting poverty, gender, conflict and exclusion

Schools are being asked to teach the climate crisis, but many teachers are still being left to improvise

From debt counselling to school lessons, civil society is filling gaps as EU rules tighten and borrowing shifts online

Los Alamos and the University of Michigan plan a dual-facility campus designed to expand high-fidelity simulation for security and public science