Air pollution cuts worker productivity
Wed 9:50amA study conducted in China shows that prolonged exposure leads to small reduction in factory productivity.Q&A: 'I emigrated when my lab was turned into barracks’
Mon 6:38amGhaneya Al-Naqeeb was forced to leave Yemen, and says researchers facing risks at home can sustain their careers abroad.Global rules should follow outcry over China’s gene-edited babies
Fri 6:25amThe announcement of the world’s first gene-edited babies met with sharp rebuke. Action should follow, says Crispin Maslog.Indigenous people to have say in UN climate policy
Jan 16, 2019, 10:33 am“Somewhat rapid” acceleration underway for platform designed to give indigenous groups a voice.Leftover brine threatens future desalination
Jan 14, 2019, 10:34 amThe global rise in desalinisation plants is a double-edged sword, study warns.Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease
Jan 11, 2019, 8:48 amDrinking artisan juice made with the fruit could be a source of parasitic infection.Fish protein wafers to ease acute malnutrition in children
Jan 10, 2019, 5:16 amWafers made of fish protein could save thousands of severely malnourished Asian children.Q&A: How to make agriculture a viable business
Jan 4, 2019, 8:23 amJennifer Blake on how the African Development Bank plans to help boost agriculture on the continent.Pakistan can meet SDGs by tapping wind, solar energy
Jan 2, 2019, 7:57 amPakistan’s massive wind and solar potential can help it meet sustainable development goals.Missed COP targets to Yemen famine – 2018 in review
Dec 30, 2018, 7:00 pmWe look back at our leading stories of 2018.Conflict diseases to snakebites – 2018 in features
Dec 26, 2018, 7:00 pmSciDev.Net looks back at the best features of 2018.Venezuela worst for illegal Amazon mining - study
Sun 7:00pmMore than 2,500 illegal mining sites identified.Starving Yemenis resort to eating tree leaves
Dec 20, 2018, 7:00 pmWidespread ingestion of unstudied plants worries scientists, who say that health impacts are unclearThe scourge of snakebite
Dec 19, 2018, 12:22 pmCenturies-old treatments are in dire need of an updateIndia battles snakebite scourge
Dec 18, 2018, 7:30 pmIndia accounts for half of the estimated 100,000 deaths from snakebites that occur globally each year.Q&A: Safer snakebite antivenom through biotech
Dec 18, 2018, 7:25 pmBiotechnology promises next-generation snakebite antivenoms that are safer than those derived from horses.Hi-tech antidotes for snakebite
Dec 18, 2018, 7:20 pmNanoparticles, enzyme inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies are the future of snakebite treatment.Race against time to treat hump-nosed pit viper bites
Dec 18, 2018, 7:15 pmThe hump-nosed pit viper’s venom is a driver of therapeutic research, but no antivenom has yet been found.Pakistan tackles snakebite envenomation
Dec 18, 2018, 7:10 pmSnakebite is treatable if patients get prompt, competent medical care, say Pakistani doctors.A matrix against snakebites
Dec 18, 2018, 7:08 pmAntivenom research can succeed if countries pool resources, talent and knowledge in a global matrix.
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