Women Will Not Reach Parity at the Pinnacle of Power for Another 130 Years, Predicts UN
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS) – The United Nations says the highest levels of political power remain the furthest from achieving gender parity in...
Peace & Security in Armed Conflicts Mean Presence of Food & Absence of Gunfire
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS) – The author is Executive Director at Oxfam InternationalIn 1941, the people of Greece were facing a horrific winter....
Only Small Percentage of COVID-19 Recovery Allocated to Green Initiatives
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) – Last year, only $368 billion of a $14.6tn budget geared towards COVID-19 recovery measures across the world’s largest...
A tour of ‘Four Lost Cities’ reveals modern ties to ancient people
Four Lost CitiesAnnalee NewitzW.W. Norton & Co., $26.95 It’s a familiar trope in movies and books: A bright-eyed protagonist moves to the big city...
The COVID-19 pandemic is now a year old. What have scientists learned?
One year ago, the World Health Organization declared that the novel coronavirus outbreak was a pandemic (SN: 3/11/20). Little did we know the uncertainty,...
Archaea microbes fold, twist and contort their DNA in extreme ways
Single-celled archaea microbes pack their DNA into flexible coils that expand and stretch much like a Slinky does. This kind of molecular gymnastics had...
More Can & Must be Done to Eradicate Caste-Based Discrimination, Says UN Rights Chief
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 11 (IPS) – There is hardly a better way to promote human rights in Nepal than celebrating Muskan Khatun for being...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 11 (IPS) – COVID-19 restrictions exposed women and girls to heightened abuse – revealing the conditions in which gender-based violence...
Riches in a Bronze Age grave suggest it holds a queen
A lavish Bronze Age burial found in southeastern Spain may hold a queen’s remains, researchers say. This unexpected discovery bolsters suspicions that women wielded...
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 10 (IPS) – On the morning of 22nd February a jeep from the World Food Programme (WFP), followed by another...
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