Researchers have unlocked the secret to pearls’ incredible symmetry
For centuries, researchers have puzzled over how oysters grow stunningly symmetrical, perfectly round pearls around irregularly shaped grains of sand or bits of debris....
Rachel Crowell
Salaries for Afghanistan health workers sends ‘message of hope’ to millions
By the time the Taliban took over Afghanistan in mid-August, at the main hospital in Maidan Shar, a city of 35,000 in the center...
Women bear the brunt of the climate crisis, COP26 highlights
Women took the global stage on Tuesday to show that climate change isn’t gender neutral, and that climate action needs them: investing in women...
Efforts to boost COVID-19 vaccine production should be matched by access to the syringes needed to inject them – and there could even be...
Diversity should be viewed as a powerful benefit, rather than a threat, particularly in countries experiencing conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, during a Security Council debate focused on the...
Woman Police Officer of the Year represents ‘best of the United Nations’
This year’s UN Woman Police Offer of the Year Award was officially handed over to Superintendent Sangya Malla on Tuesday, for her groundbreaking work...
COP26 Adapting to the Climate Crisis
OTTAWA, Canada, Nov 09 (IPS) – Look up any map showing today’s global humanitarian crises and you’ll find it awash in red alerts more...
Fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced at least 11,000 people to flee to neighbouring Uganda since Sunday night,...
GLASGOW, Scotland, Nov 09 (IPS) – As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) is swiftly moving to its conclusion on Friday, climate justice could...
CAMBRIDGE, Nov 09 (IPS) – As world leaders wrap up the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, new scientific research shows that there is still...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now