Adrian Smith and colleagues explore grassroots innovations, their potential for development and challenges facing practitioners.

SciDev.Net reporters across the developing world describe exciting initiatives aimed at supporting innovation in local communities and remote areas.

Interest is growing in tools and innovations that can ease the workload imposed on women farm workers, report M Sreelata and Naomi Antony.

SciDev.Net speaks to Vaughan Turekian, editor-in-chief of the AAAS's new quarterly publication, Science & Diplomacy, which launched this week.

India dreams of becoming a scientific powerhouse, but challenges lie ahead, including complex bureaucracy.

Sarah Grimes explores why we need good ocean monitoring, how to get it, and why it still fails Small Island Developing States.

A network of mountaintop research stations is being built across Asia to study how large bodies of ice respond to increasing temperatures.

India has a heavy TB burden but has the technological capacity to deal with it. T.V. Padma reports.

Nuclear power promises clean energy for developing countries. Dave Elliott charts its progress and prospects after the accident at Fukushima.

SciDev.Net reporters from around the world tell us which countries are set on developing nuclear energy despite the Fukushima accident.

Developing countries need more women scientists. Jeanne Therese H. Andres charts the obstacles and how to overcome them.

Women from Jordan, Kenya, Pakistan, Peru and the Philippines tell SciDev.Net how they realised their dreams of careers in science.

Priya Shetty explores the tools and partnerships that help the public health community counter the threat of counterfeit medicines.

Nearly forty years since its inception, India's Barefoot College has trained 15,000 women in a range of poverty-stemming skills.

Scientists say that Bangladesh's Nipah virus could be stopped by protecting the date palm sap that its fruit bat carriers enjoy.

A dispute over the HINARI scheme, which gives poor countries free journal access, has exposed the sensitive border between aid and commerce, finds Yojana Sharma.

Mohamed Hassan, outgoing executive director of TWAS, talks to SciDev.Net about 25 years in the job and his hopes for the academy's future.

Can developing countries use nanotechnology to improve health? Priya Shetty looks at nanomedicine's promise.

Pakistan's water crisis is dire and set to get worse, but numerous research projects are underway to help alleviate the situation.

India's research and development is on the up, but there are problems to tackle if it is to create a prosperous society for everyone.