As someone who was born in 1948, the risk of a nuclear World War III was a very real part of my childhood.

Science fiction has long explored the terrifying possibility that we are devoid of free will, and that some unpleasant creature could control our minds or turn us into plodding zombies.But mind control is not just a literary trope.

By Rakesh Mohan and Anu MadgavkarA debate about job creation and employment is heating up in India, fuelled by data that seems to show the country is entering a period of jobless growth.Official statistics suggest that overall labour-force participation declined between 2011

By Sung-Young Kim and John A. Mathews  Not long ago, the future of nuclear power was in Asia. In 2015, nine of the 10 reactors that opened globally were on the continent.

By Alex Soros and Patrick WeilIn a world where the threat of large-scale war seems to increase by the day, peace treaties are rare and precious accomplishments.One of the most significant in recent history was concluded just last year, when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos

By Mia Zaharna and Henry I.

By Domna Michailidou and Jonathan KennedyUnfounded scepticism about vaccines in some communities, in developing and developed countries alike, has emerged in recent years as one of the most serious impediments to global progress in public health.

By Helen Saxenian and Paul WilsonThe first years of this century have been heady ones for global health.International donors — whether national governments, such as the United States through its PEPFAR programme, or new international funding initiatives, such as the Global Fund t

In Ghana, a group of enterprising women and young people is building bicycles out of an unlikely material: bamboo.Ten farmers grow the bamboo and 25 builders craft it into environmentally friendly bikes that can be used on Ghana’s bumpy roads or exported overseas.Bernice Dapaah,