Two exoplanet families redefine what planetary systems can look like
Two tightly packed families of exoplanets are pushing the boundaries of what a planetary system can look like. New studies of the makeup of...
Lisa Grossman
Nearly half a million U.S. children missed out on lead tests in early 2020
Close to a half million U.S. children didn’t get tested for lead in the first half of 2020. Nearly 10,000 of those children may...
El Aromo Solar Project Sets Precedent for Renewable Energy in Ecuador
SANTIAGO, Feb 04 (IPS) – In December 2020, the “El Aromo” solar energy project was approved in coastal Manabí province, Ecuador. Operated by the...
Why its Crucial Not to Limit the Youth’s Access and Use of Family Planning
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 04 (IPS) – With the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affecting access to Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) services, it’s...
China & Russia Throw Protective Arms Around Myanmar
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 04 (IPS) – The UN Special Envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, appealed to the Security Council on February 2 to...
A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile
Hidden beneath the leaf litter of a northern Malagasy forest lives a chameleon so slight that it could tumble off the tip of your...
Revoke Patents, Defeat the Pandemic & Deliver Global Justice
NEW DELHI, India, Feb 04 (IPS) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote on Twitter: “We must get to work to make sure the vaccine...
UN Calls for an ‘Ocean Science Revolution’
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 04 (IPS) – The 2021-2030 initiative hopes to raise funding for ocean science and focus on the sustainable use of marine...
Famous brain sketches come to life again as embroideries
In the late 1800s, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish brain scientist, spent long hours in his attic drawing elaborate cells. His careful, solitary...
An upwelling of rock beneath the Atlantic may drive continents apart
An upsurge of hot rock from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean may be driving the continents on either side apart. The Americas are moving...
New UN system platform puts millions of data points at users’ fingertips, says Guterres 
Outpacing Foreign Aid, Migrant Remittances Are a Lifeline Ensuring Families Are Fed and Healthy, Says IFAD 
This ‘anti-vampiric’ grave used two strategies to stop the undead 
What’s behind ‘one of paleontology’s most enduring enigmas’?