Urban animals may get some dangerous gut microbes from humans
Animals moving into the big city could be getting more than they bargained for. Gut microorganisms from humans in cities may be spilling over...
Richard Kemeny
Americans tend to assume imaginary faces are male
There may be a reason we see a man, rather than a maiden, in the moon. When people spot facelike patterns in inanimate objects,...
‘We cannot abandon the people of Afghanistan’ Guterres tells Security Council
With Afghanistan “hanging by a thread” six months after the Taliban takeover, the world cannot abandon the country now – for the sake of...
Bachelet: ‘We need to push back against hatred’
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned on Wednesday that “racism and xenophobia are rising sharply”, highlighting violent attacks on Jewish sites and antisemitic incidents reported in many countries....
More than eight million new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Americas last week, the highest weekly caseload since the start of the pandemic,...
New insights into quality of care for girls and women facing medical complications due to unsafe abortion were published on Wednesday by the UN health...
Military solution for Syria remains ‘an illusion’: Pedersen
With no shifts in the frontlines in almost two years, the UN Special Envoy for Syria warnedt he Security Council about “a strategic stalemate” in the nearly 11-year-old war. Read the full story, “Military solution for...
Tonga tsunami: ‘Kids were screaming as if a war was upon us’
A Tongan family’s trip to visit relatives on Mango island earlier this month turned into a nightmare, when the country was devastated by the...
Machine learning points to prime places in Antarctica to find meteorites
The hunt for meteorites may have just gotten some new leads. A powerful new machine learning algorithm has identified over 600 hot spots in...
UN mourns ‘true pioneer’: Brigadier General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu
For the United Nations’ Secretary General, Brigadier General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu, who passed away this week in her home country, Ghana, was “a true pioneer.” ...
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