What is the current global outlook on the recyclability of materials used in architecture? To what extent are contemporary societies truly committed to reducing environmental impact? In the effort to ...

Southeast Asia consists of eleven countries that reach from eastern India to China, and is generally divided into “mainland” and “island” zones. The mainland (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and ...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children with tuberculosis (TB), yet there are currently no estimates of the global burden of pediatric TBM. Due to ...

Achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals remains a challenge in many developing countries, and especially in rural areas. Smallholder farmers are often trapped in a vicious cycle of ...

Plant Pathogenic Ralstonia spp. From the Field to the Lab and Back Again: mechanisms of pathogen virulence and host resistance, population biology, community ecology and strategies for bacterial wilt ...

In Africa, Zika virus circulates in a sylvatic transmission cycle between nonhuman primates and certain forest-dwelling species of aedes mosquitoes. In this setting, sporadic human infections may ...

Dogs were the first domesticated species, but the precise timing and location of domestication are hotly debated. Using genomic data from 5,392 dogs, including a global set of 549 village dogs, we ...

Unnoticed by most of its readers, Wikipedia continues to undergo dramatic changes, as its sister project Wikidata introduces a new multilingual “Wikipedia for data ...

Historic Jeddah is situated on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. From the 7th century AD it was established as a major port for Indian Ocean trade routes, channelling goods to Mecca. It was also the ...

Scala stairs at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne inspired the Scala logo (http://www.scala-lang.org) designed by Gilles Dubochet. Though IT originated as ...