Octopus sleep includes a frenzied, colorful, ‘active’ stage
Octopuses cycle through two stages of slumber, a new study reports. First comes quiet sleep, and then a shift to a twitchy, active sleep...
Laura Sanders
Humanitarian & Food Aid Can Never be Enough to Manage Cascading Disasters
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 (IPS) – The intersection of crisis, climate change and COVID-19 has resulted in a “rapid rise in hunger”, according to...
50 years ago, experiments hinted at the possibility of life on Mars
Organics on Mars — Science News, March 27, 1971 [Researchers] have exposed a mixture of gases simulating conditions believed to exist on the surface...
Debt Moratoria in the Next Pandemic: Be Prepared, and Be Fair
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 25 (IPS) – Imagine it is 2025 and that, unfortunately, another pandemic is sweeping the world. Much like in the 2020...
DHAKA, Mar 24 (IPS) – The building that was once the largest health centre in the Kutupalong refugee camp, serving some 55,000 Rohingya refugees...
Tech Savvy Youth with High Social-Emotional Skills Succeed in Agriculture – Study Shows
IBADAAN, Nigeria, Mar 23 (IPS) – Saheed Babajide, a young animal production graduate and a manager at a national milk production company in Iseyin, Nigeria,...
How using sheepskin for legal papers may have prevented fraud
Fraudulent efforts to tweak legal documents in Great Britain may have been thwarted by the very parchment those documents were written on, a new...
Atomic clocks take a step toward redefining the second
A new measurement moves scientists closer to revamping how we keep time. After scientists redefined the unit of mass, the kilogram, in 2019, they...
Centering Equity: A Vision for Global Health in 2021
DEHRADUN, India/OXFORD, UK, Mar 24 (IPS) – 2020 will be remembered as the year that changed the world, as COVID-19 spared no country, no...
A new black hole image reveals the behemoth’s magnetic fields
Astronomers have gotten their first glimpse of the magnetic fields tangled around a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope has unveiled the magnetism of...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible 
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’ 
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons from the Rohingya crisis