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A considered route through a subject. Follow a developing frontier, carry an idea across disciplines, or examine a problem from several angles.
Developing frontierAI and scientific discovery
From a proposed answer to a result that can be tested. Mathematics, molecules and environmental measurements offer different views of the same changing frontier.
5 articles
Research communityFrom the research community
The archive of conferences, calls and gatherings around research, especially in Ghana and West Africa.
6 articles Further readingFurther afield
More from the archive: short dispatches, unusual questions and work beyond our established collections.
2 articles
Idea across disciplinesGenes, cells & inheritance
How biological information is organised, read and passed on—from DNA and genomes to cells and inherited variation.
15 articles
Problem in the worldGhana’s changing environment
Heat, flooding and environmental research, with a view toward the decisions and infrastructure they affect.
5 articles
Idea across disciplinesMeasuring the invisible
Gravitational waves and attosecond light pulses: two ways to ask what an instrument can reveal.
2 articles
Problem in the worldInfection, immunity & public health
Pathogens, immune responses and the public work of preventing disease, with reporting from Ghana and beyond.
18 articles
Problem in the worldLife on a changing Earth
Species, ecosystems, crops and adaptation: how living things respond to each other and to changing environments.
9 articles
People and their workLives in science
Researchers, working lives and the people behind scientific institutions, instruments and shared knowledge.
7 articles
Idea across disciplinesMathematics & computation
Abstract structures, space and calculation—and how mathematical ideas become tools for understanding and building.
4 articles
Idea across disciplinesMatter, energy & the quantum world
Particles, light, materials and the physical theories that connect observations across scales.
7 articles
Idea across disciplinesMind, behaviour & social life
Communication, perception and social behaviour, across human experience and the wider animal world.
9 articles
Problem in the worldScience in public life
Education, engineering, recognition and the institutions that shape who can take part in science.
6 articles
Developing frontierSpace, time & other worlds
Observing the cosmos, searching for life and asking what a distant signal can tell us.
9 articles
Developing frontierThe body, health & ageing
Research into illness, ageing, movement and care—and the distance between a promising finding and a useful intervention.
10 articles
Developing frontierWhat can a protein’s shape tell us?
Protein structures, genetic variation and the shared scientific work behind modern prediction.
7 articlesBrowse by subject
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