Despite the passionate for which they are usually fought, independence movements are rarely successful and their outcomes less than hoped for.
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It’s wrong to blame climate change for famine and conflict. These can either be prevented, or the impact minimised, if institutions and mechanisms of good governance are in place.
A mathematician has joined the dots between Alan Turing and chasing cells to find out how skin patterns are formed.
Archbishop Bishop Desmond Tutu is well known for having invoked an ubuntu ethic to evaluate South African society, and he can take substantial credit for having made the term familiar.
The use of Agent Orange in Vietnam had deep impacts, including a poisoned water supply, birth defects and cancer. Despite decades of attempted litigation, justice for spraying victims seems unlikely.
Physical activity is considered an important way to lower risk for breast cancer. But what if your ability to be fit is influenced by genes you inherit? Would that raise your risk? In rats, it did.
Today’s scientific research is characterized by interdisciplinary, international collaboration. Awards like the Nobel Prizes haven’t caught up.
India has a radical new plan to eliminate TB, backed by research and technological expertise. The country just needs strong financial and political commitment from government to implement it.
With much attention focused on military might and economic sanctions, there has been little focus on calls for a diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis.
It’s clear autonomous vehicles will disrupt our cities, their land use and planning. Whether they make urban life better or worse depends on how well we anticipate and adapt to their impacts.
US President Donald Trump hasn’t proposed new initiatives for Africa but didn’t end those launched by his predecessors either.
Rap has become instrumental in constructing identity and radically reshaping relations to politics in Gabon and other African states.
African democracies are embracing electronic voting far more confidently than the West.
Razor-sharp, unconventional and fun on the dance floor. A colleague paints a colourful portrait of one of this year’s Nobel Laureates in physics.
While mass shooting tragedies in Las Vegas and elsewhere make headlines, the reality is gun violence is becoming almost routine in many American neighborhoods. Where do the guns come from?
Crunching the numbers on 14 years of trading shows one of the assumptions about global markets is looking fragile.
Trade and investment between Indonesia and Australia is very little despite their proximity. But there are signs of change in the way Australia thinks about Indonesia.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered how our internal body clock works.
Regional variations in sea temperature can make all the difference between a coral reef suffering major bleaching or surviving as a refuge for corals, new research shows.
The distinction between food insecurity and famine is artificial and unhelpful. Hungry people are suffering however their situation falls below the radar.
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