Why it’s so hard for a one-hit wonder to have a lasting music career
It’s hard to predict which songs will become hits. It’s even more difficult to predict which artists topping today’s charts will go on to...
Chris Gorski
The sun’s searing radiation led to the shuffling of the solar system’s planets
In the solar system’s early years, the still-forming giant planets sidestepped, did a do-si-do and then swung one of their partners away from the...
Climate: World getting ‘measurably closer’ to 1.5-degree threshold
There is a 50:50 chance of average global temperature reaching 1.5 degrees Celcius above pre-industrial levels in the next five years, and the likelihood...
Finance Drives World to Stagflation
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 (IPS) – The world is being pressed by financial interests to raise interest rates, ostensibly to check inflation....
NEW YORK, May 10 (IPS) – “Whatever the circle of hell in which we live, I think we are free to break out of...
The UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) welcomed on Monday, Secretary-General António Guterres’ appointment of Jens Wandel as its ad interim chief. Read the full story,...
Guterres expresses solidarity as Moldova grapples with fallout of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Moldova, the most fragile of war-torn Ukraine’s neighbors, needs and deserves massive support to match its generosity as a recipient of nearly half a...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate deadly armed group attacks in Djugu Territory,...
Nicaragua: New law heralds damaging crackdown on civil society, UN warns
Under the guise of preventing money-laundering and cutting off terrorist financing, a new law in Nicaragua further restricts the functioning of civil society, “contrary...
Afghanistan: Nearly 20 million going hungry
Nearly 20 million people in Afghanistan – almost half the population – are facing acute hunger, humanitarians warned in a UN-backed report, published on...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now