Having more friends may help female giraffes live longer
Grown-up giraffes just aren’t huggy, cuddling, demonstrative animals. So it took identity-recognition software grinding through five years of data to reveal that female social...
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NEW YORK, Feb 25 (IPS) – Ambassador Sidi Omar is Frente POLISARIO Representative at the United NationsThe question of Western Sahara, known as Africa’s...
Drug Use is a Health Issue – We Need to Decriminalize
APIA, Samoa, Feb 25 (IPS) – Vulnerable people need support, not stricter lawsEarlier this month, and in December 2020 the Government of Samoa conducted...
Ardi may have been more chimplike than initially thought — or not
One of the earliest known hominids, a 4.4-million-year-old partial skeleton of a female dubbed Ardi, had hands suited for climbing trees and swinging from...
Protons’ antimatter is even more lopsided than we thought
The proton’s antimatter is out of whack. An imbalance between two types of antiparticles that seethe within the proton is even wonkier than previously...
BONN, Germany, Feb 24 (IPS) – For Sudanese youth, climate change is synonymous with insecurity. Read the full story, “The Global Insecurity of Climate...
Redefining ‘flesh-colored’ bandages makes medicine more inclusive
When Linda Oyesiku was a child, she skinned her knee on her school’s playground. The school nurse cleaned her up and covered the wound...
Climate change helped some dinosaurs migrate to Greenland
A drop in carbon dioxide levels may have helped sauropodomorphs, early relatives of the largest animal to ever walk the earth, migrate thousands of...
Natural Enemies: How Mango Farmers are Tackling an Invasive Fruit Fly Pest
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 23 (IPS) – As the climate warms, a destructive pest is spreading its wings and damaging the livelihoods of fruit growers...
Is the USA Fit to Rejoin the UN Human Rights Council?
TORONTO, Canada, Feb 24 (IPS) – A month into Joe Biden’s presidency, the U.S. has rejoined nearly all the multilateral institutions and international commitments...
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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