Medical researchers have known for decades that the pipeline for new drugs to stave off bacterial infections would one day run dry. That day is now at hand.
A woman sits with her child next to storm-ravaged buildings on May 4 after Cyclone Fani swept through the eastern state of Odisha. The cyclone killed at least 34 people in India and 15 in Bangladesh. Reports credited the vastly improved disaster readiness efforts of the countries, which evacuated millions of people from the powerful storm’s path, with preventing a much larger death toll.
"We get carried away by our weapons, firepower, superiority, technology, all this kind of stuff, and we fail to look at the human factor," diplomat Robert Oakley told Newsweek in 2003.
Mazi Ghorbani is an entrepreneur and inventor whose latest venture involves creating a sustainable protein derived from fish in an effort to combat childhood hunger.