Probiotics help lab corals survive deadly heat stress
Warming seas threaten to turn coral reefs from kaleidoscopes of color into bleached fields of rubble. To stop this degradation, some scientists are exploring...
Jonathan Lambert
UN health agency urges support for new COVID-19 origins studies
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries “to put differences aside” in order to speed up efforts to understand where and how...
ACCRA, Ghana, Aug 13 (IPS) – ‘Know your customers’ is arguably the first rule of marketing. By identifying and segmenting customer groups, companies can...
Afghanistan is on course to witness its highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since records began, the UN refugee...
Here Is How We Can Keep Women Safe From Sexual Violence
ISLAMABAD, Aug 13 (IPS) – The past weeks have been quite traumatic for the women of Pakistan. Recently, a young woman named Noor Mukadam...
Digitisation Boosts Mechanised Farming Among Kenyan Farmers
Nakuru, Kenya, Aug 13 (IPS) – When 33-year-old Kimani Mwaniki, an Irish potato farmer in Elburgon, Nakuru County in Kenya’s Rift Valley, heard about...
How different COVID-19 testing plans can help keep kids safe in school
Backpack? Check. Notebooks and pencils? Check. Coronavirus test? Check. As fall approaches, many parents and teachers hope to leave Zoom school behind and have...
A group of UN-appointed experts on Thursday called for a moratorium on the sale of surveillance technology, warning against the danger of allowing the...
Young people are on the “frontlines of the struggle to build a better future”, the UN chief said on Thursday, International Youth Day. Read...
Youth must be included in disarmament and non-proliferation
With 40 per cent of the global population under 25, the international community has a special responsibility to ensure young people can share their...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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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