The oldest known surgical amputation occurred 31,000 years ago
A child who lived on the Indonesian island of Borneo around 31,000 years ago underwent the oldest known surgical operation, an amputation of the...
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How mythology could help demystify dog domestication
In Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Edison discovers that dogs are intellectually superior beings. They’re so smart, in...
A coral pollution study unexpectedly helped explain Hurricane Maria’s fury
Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico early on September 20, 2017, with 250-kilometer-per-hour winds, torrential rains and a storm surge up to...
‘The air that keeps us alive is making us sick’, warn UN experts on Clean Air Day
International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, marked on 7 September, takes place in a world where almost all the air we breathe...
Bukele’s Failed Bitcoin Experiment in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 07 (IPS) – A year after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele decided to make El Salvador the first country where bitcoin is...
GENEVA, Sep 07 (IPS) – Afghanistan is where history has taken it! The Trump-Taliban “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan,” signed on 29 February...
Following conflict and election-related violence in Papua New Guinea, more than 15,000 people have been internally displaced in Hela, Southern Highlands and Enga provinces,...
Sri Lanka is at a critical juncture and the new Government must make progress on accountability as well as institutional and security sector reforms,...
Denied decent work opportunities and highly vulnerable to systemic shocks such as pandemics or economic downturns, workers in Asia and the Pacific are under...
As fighting continues in South Sudan, a new UN report released on Tuesday documents 173 civilian deaths over a four-month period along with widespread...
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