Michael Marshall

Understanding how life arose from non-living chemicals remains a scientific challenge. This question is of profound importance, both for our own origins and for understanding where we might find life elsewhere in the universe.

There is an urgent need for a practice-informed governance framework covering potential interventions to preserve the cryosphere – the portions of Earth’s surface where water is frozen as ice, snow, or permafrost

The Future of Glaucoma brings together insights, experience and ambitions from both patients and healthcare professionals to formulate a combined vision for future glaucoma care.

Synthetic biology is a set of emerging technologies enabling the modification and creation of living cells and organisms, and of their building blocks

Researchers seeking to understand environmental shifts such as climate change, have incorporated ever more components of the Earth system into their models

Suitably managed and directed, a set of ongoing and future science and technology breakthroughs offer an opportunity to sidestep likely problems with food supply, improve food quality and make the production of food more sustainable

Solar radiation modification (SRM) is a set of approaches that could fully or partially offset the temperature rise caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, thus reducing some of the harmful impacts of anthropogenic climate change

Understanding the origins of life can teach us a great deal about the possibilities inherent in biology and potential routes towards new medical insights, as well as providing unparalleled perspectives on cosmological history

Advances in science and technology are reshaping archaeology in multiple ways, with new techniques significantly enhancing both practice and knowledge

Decarbonising the global economy presents a significant technical and sociopolitical challenge. To limit warming to 1.5°C or 2°C, global emissions must peak by 2025 and fall rapidly.

Our growing understanding of the ocean offers enormous opportunities, both for the prevention of harm and the enabling of benefits

What do we, as a global community, need to do to leverage AI responsibly and equitably to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)?

From food insecurity and cholera in Malawi, to droughts and fooding in Somalia, to scorching heatwaves in Burkina Faso – as temperatures continue to rise, so too does the toll on people.

This Annual Report outlines the activities and progress of the National Society Investment Alliance (NSIA) in 2023. The NSIA promotes the sustainable development of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies in fragile contexts. The report…

This report details the 2023 activities and expenditures of the IFRC Capacity Building Fund, which supports Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies in their self-development through financial support and the facilitation of technical knowledge…

Eco-augmentation can be defined as humans’ deliberate and strategic interactions with nature, intended to create more resilient, robust and sustainable ecological systems

Proteins are essential components of life, predicting their 3D structure enables researchers to get an insight into its function and role. AlphaFold is an artificial intelligence (AI) system, developed by Google DeepMind, that predicts a protein’s 3D…

This Annual Report outlines the activities and progress of the National Society Investment Alliance (NSIA) in 2022. The NSIA is a joint investment fund of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the…

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the biggest disaster in living memory, on almost any measure. Over 6.5 million people are confirmed to have died in less than 3 years, and the pandemic’s indirect impacts have touched the lives of virtually every…

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