The study of blastoids, a research model of an early embryo derived from stem cells rather than from a father’s sperm or a mother’s egg, offers great hope for researchers investigating why pregnancies ...

A new World Bank report, titled "Embracing and Shaping Change: Human Development for a Middle East and North Africa in Transition," outlined the challenges and opportunities for human development in ...

Development and adoption of new technologies create challenges that may take years to resolve. Modern bioprocessing and antibody manufacturing are mature fields; however, challenges remain, and the ...

Human Development Index (HDI) 2025 Ranking List: According to the most recent UNDP 2025 Human Development Report, trade tensions, growing debt crises, and unemployment in a variety of industries are ...

This article explains the challenges associated with the funding, development, supply and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). It deals with narrow AI, that is systems and applications that are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US government’s medical research arm is preparing the ground for Covid-19 “human challenge trials” that ...

Glancing at the World Bank’s statement or the IMF’s review of the EFF in May 2025, things could not seem more rosy. With a real GDP growth rate of 2.7%, inflation falling to 4.7%, lower interest rates ...

If you want to understand the quality of life lived by the people of any country, the measure, or most widely used standard, ...