Levitating plastic beads mimic the physics of spinning asteroids
Some asteroids can barely hold it together. Rather than solid lumps of rock, ‘rubble pile’ asteroids are loose collections of material, which can split...
Emily Conover
First Person: Coping with Ukraine’s health crisis
Jarno Habicht has worked with WHO for the last 19 years and served as WHO Representative in Ukraine since 2018. He explains how WHO...
NEW YORK, Mar 23 (IPS) – This week, exactly 20 years ago, world leaders adopted the United Nation’s Monterrey Consensus. They committed to “Confronting...
Women and girls deserve to live without violence in ‘safety, dignity and freedom’
Violence against women and girls may be the world’s “longest, deadliest pandemic,” the UN chief said on Tuesday, during an event focused on the...
Haiti: UN agencies warn of ‘unabated’ rise in hunger
While humanitarian assistance has been successful in averting a catastrophe, Haiti is experiencing a persistent rise in hunger levels, with many citizens suffering acutely,...
Speakers in the Security Council on Tuesday denounced evictions and demolitions by Israeli authorities of Palestinian-owned properties, as the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process,...
War on Syria: Eleven Years of Carnage
MADRID, Mar 22 (IPS) – “Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population – somewhere in the order of...
NASA’s exoplanet count surges past 5,000
It’s official: The number of planets known beyond our solar system has just passed 5,000. The exoplanet census surpassed this milestone with a recent...
Time to negotiate end to ‘unwinnable’ war in Ukraine, Guterres declares
It’s time for a diplomatic solution to be found to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, amidst signs of hope that progress can be made...
Groundwater at the Heart of the Water Security Equation
PRETORIA, South Africa, Mar 22 (IPS) – Eng. James Sauramba is Executive Director of the SADC Groundwater Management Institute. Groundwater is invisible and yet its...
Yemen’s humanitarian crisis growing by the hour amid spike in displacement 
Nepal floods: ‘Apocalyptic’ destruction signals wider climate threat across Himalayas 
Haiti: Child malnutrition crisis worsens amid escalating violence 
The Connection Between Urbanization and Poverty: How Cities Can Reduce Poverty – Or Deepen It