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New satellite thermal imaging systems could redraw the world’s map of heat risk
Thermal satellites are making heat visible at field, street and neighbourhood scale, with major implications for climate adaptation

Editorial Team SDG13
May 16 min read


Cholera resurgence exposes the global cost of climate vulnerability and inequality
A preventable disease is spreading where water systems, health services and public investment have failed

Editorial Team SDG3
Apr 296 min read


Psychedelic medicine advances in mental health research as science tests safety, efficacy and real clinical potential
Research on psilocybin, MDMA and ibogaine is expanding, but safety, regulation and clinical evidence remain decisive.

Editorial Team SDG3
Apr 225 min read


HIFA and the politics of reliable healthcare information
HIFA argues that remote care cannot work fairly when patients, clinicians and policymakers lack trusted health information

Editorial Team SDG3
Apr 215 min read


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

Editorial Team SDG4
Apr 176 min read


Science funding is being recast as a lever of power
Across Asia, governments, philanthropy and industry are reshaping research around competitiveness, influence and strategic technologies

Editorial Team SDG9
Apr 126 min read


The bioeconomy’s industrial test is no longer in the laboratory
Advanced materials, cell engineering and biological production are pushing the bioeconomy from research promise to factory-floor change

Editorial Team SDG15
Apr 116 min read


Malaria vaccine rollout in Africa is testing more than science
New malaria vaccines offer real promise, but delivery, trust and funding will decide whether that promise reaches children

Editorial Team SDG3
Apr 106 min read


Whether the future of healthcare is being defined less by hospitals and more by connected care
Sensors, AI tools and remote decisions are widening access, but they may also redraw inequality, trust and clinical accountability

Editorial Team SDG3
Apr 76 min read


Zooniverse, the civic value of people-powered research
Volunteer-led citizen science is expanding research capacity, but its public value depends on access, trust and good design

Editorial Team SDG9
Mar 276 min read


Citizen science as a driver of a changing world
From polluted air to biodiversity loss, public participation in research is changing how evidence is produced, challenged and used

Editorial Team SDG9
Mar 256 min read


Teach the Future and the politics of climate education reform
A youth led campaign has helped push climate literacy from the margins towards the centre of education policy

Editorial Team SDG4
Mar 215 min read


Researchers in the HIV cure race, closer to remission, but not yet to a universal cure
Spain’s HIV scientists are helping turn rare breakthroughs into realistic remission strategies, while stigma and late diagnosis still slow progress

Editorial Team SDG3
Mar 186 min read


Prevention programmes that reduce future costs in health systems
Vaccination, screening and public health policy can cut long term costs, but prevention still gets a small share of spending

Editorial Team SDG3
Mar 176 min read


Environmental Performance Index offers a global scorecard of climate and nature progress
A Yale and Columbia-led index ranks 180 countries and updates its metrics, as governments face widening trade-offs and data gaps

Editorial Team SDG15
Mar 165 min read


NGOs working on school dropout in later adolescence are filling gaps that states still leave open
As upper secondary dropout remains high, civil society groups are targeting poverty, gender, conflict and exclusion

Editorial Team SDG4
Mar 146 min read


Teacher training in climate literacy and critical thinking is becoming an education test
Schools are being asked to teach the climate crisis, but many teachers are still being left to improvise

Editorial Team SDG13
Mar 126 min read


European NGOs tackling household debt and basic financial education amid Europe’s cost-of-living strain
From debt counselling to school lessons, civil society is filling gaps as EU rules tighten and borrowing shifts online

Editorial Team SDG4
Mar 97 min read


Michigan SPARC alliance aims to accelerate supercomputing and AI research
Los Alamos and the University of Michigan plan a dual-facility campus designed to expand high-fidelity simulation for security and public science

Editorial Team SDG9
Feb 183 min read


Locally controlled forest restoration programme targets market access for community-led management
A LoCoFoRest initiative aims to link SDG 15 ambitions with land rights, livelihoods and governance ahead of a planned shift to digital monitoring

Editorial Team SDG15
Feb 153 min read


Fundación Aquae centres 2026 strategy on water sustainability through ecosystem recovery and industrial water cycle efficiency
Reforestation, wastewater reuse and youth-led research sit at the heart of the foundation’s water agenda for 2026.

Editorial Team SDG6
Feb 132 min read


Science begins before the laboratory
Curiosity starts young: with role models, access, and encouragement, more girls can stay in STEM and help shape the science we need

Gabriela Casuso
Feb 113 min read


Global finance still fuels destruction despite urgent call for nature positive investment
A 30 to 1 imbalance in global funding shows the world is still financing its own extinction as nature based investment lags far behind

Editorial Team SDG15
Feb 104 min read


London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine supports India’s response to Nipah virus outbreak
LSHTM experts strengthen surveillance and containment efforts amid rising public health concerns in west bengal

Editorial Team SDG3
Feb 55 min read
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