Nada Ikken

Rony Pain is dedicated to addressing the significant issue of cancer metastasis, responsible for approximately 90% of cancer-related deaths. His research focuses on PCLX-001, an investigational drug shown to inhibit the metabolism of aggressive breast cancer cells, potentially preventing their spread and offering a promising solution to the metastasis problem,…

In the global North, discussions of climate change often carry an undercurrent of fear in terms of anxiety around an “inundation” of rich countries by so-called climate refugees. At the same time, much of the discourse is based on finding financial solutions to the vulnerabilities exposed by climate change, leading…

nQuire is an online citizen science engagement platform (nquire.org.uk) that supports members of the public to initiate, run and manage their own scientific investigations. It is unique in combining citizen science with community education and decision-making at big scale. Any individual or community group can add their voice by defining…

By utilizing nanoscale light sources as artificial photonic neurons, Matěj Hejda and his team aim to develop a novel, light-powered, high speed hardware with a brain-inspired architecture for energy-efficient AI computation.

Dosy is an online platform that teaches women and girls how to ride scooters and bicycles.

The rapidly growing gap between social media and real life is one of the most powerful sources of political tribalism in the world today. Platforms such as Facebook and X fuel status-seeking extremists and make moderates seem invisible, leaving all of us feel more polarized than we really are. New…

Our pioneering simulations of supermassive black hole binaries have linked the theory of galaxy formation with the emerging field of gravitational waves. By probing the physics at scales less than a light year inside colliding galaxies, we have shown that black holes can merge much faster than previously thought, we…

Jonathan Mendonca is the Co-founder and Director of Strategy at Barefoot Edu Foundation, a non-profit focused on building educational leadership in India. In his video, Jonathan outlines his mission to empower principles to make education meaningful for children. Rehnuma is an online training and research lab for school principals, by…

HOW POPULATION STUDIES CAN HELP PREVENT NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES Humanity is getting older. Due to a combination of longer life expectancy and declining fertility rates, the proportion of the population aged over sixty years is growing faster than any other age group. The success of public health policies and socio-economic development…

The negative effects of our digital habits, our propensity to skim-read texts and our lack of mental focus have been widely reported. However, the real impact on our reading abilities, which extends to the impairment of crucial structures in the functioning of our brain, has consequences far greater than we…