[KIGALI, SciDev.Net] Global health leaders cautiously welcomed a decision by US lawmakers to restore funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), stressing… Read More »HIV advocates cautiously welcome $400mn PEPFAR reprieve

Using the world’s most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and unique that they have dubbed it a… Read More »Newly discovered ‘cosmic unicorn’ is a spinning dead star that defies physics: ‘We have a real mystery on our hands’

The researchers showed participants four knots that are physically similar but have a hierarchy of strength. People were asked to look at the knots, two… Read More »Can You Tell Which Knot Is Strongest? Most People Fail This Surprisingly Tough Challenge

Roughly 14 billion years ago, a tiny pinpoint of extreme heat and density erupted in a grand explosion, leading to the creation of between 100… Read More »The Universe Started as a “Hot Soup of Particles and Photons” 13.8 Billion Years Ago

[LINDAU, GERMANY, SciDev.Net] Microbiologist Maria Andrea Laetitia Huët developed a love of nature as a child growing up on the island of Mauritius. Now she… Read More »Q&A: Sugarcane offers sweet solution to brutal disease

This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that involves DNA from three people.… Read More »A brief history of “three-parent babies”

Close to 100 women from various science organisations across India met at an event in 2025 to deliberate on issues of inclusivity, representation and the… Read More »Resilience and representation in research: In conversation with Radhika Nair

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still mysterious. Not much sunlight pierces… Read More »Strange ‘Fossil’ World Detected at Fringes of Solar System

Earlier this month astronomers were thrilled to discover only the third known interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. Now dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the suspected… Read More »New Interstellar Object Is Full of Mysteries. Here’s What Scientists Most Want to Learn