New images reveal details of two bacteria’s molecular syringes
Some bacteria carry tiny syringes filled with chemicals that may thin out competitors or incapacitate predators. Now, researchers have gotten up-close views of these...
BERLIN, Mar 30 (IPS) – In a short period, the war in Ukraine has already had a major effect on the world economy. The...
Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday night condemned recent terrorist attacks in Israel that have claimed the lives of at least 11 Israeli citizens. Read the...
Ukrainian Women, Children Fleeing War Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
BRATISLAVA, Mar 30 (IPS) – States must do more to protect women and children fleeing war in Ukraine, rights groups have urged, amid growing...
New Seed Bank to Support Agriculture of the Future
PALMIRA, Colombia, Mar 30 (IPS) – As he points to a white shelf that holds bean seeds, Austrian biologist Peter Wenzl explains that one...
Invasive jorō spiders get huge and flashy — if they’re female
Some thumbnail-sized, brown male spiders in Georgia could be miffed if they paid the least attention to humans and our news obsessions. Recent stories...
How scientists found an African bat lost to science for 40 years
Julius Nziza still remembers the moment vividly. Just before dawn on a chilly January morning in 2019, he and his team gently extracted a...
UN Dubai Forum: Women entrepreneurs call for greater access to financing
The second full day of the World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum (WEIF 2022) on Tuesday, saw women entrepreneurs demanding better opportunities and better access to...
COVID-19: Education risks becoming ‘greatest divider’
Now entering its third year, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to hold back some 405 million school children worlwide from a full return to...
‘Staggering number’ of unintended pregnancies reveals failure to uphold women’s rights
Nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year worldwide, are unintended, according to a new report published on Wednesday by the UN’s...
‘Make or bake time’: Guterres urges climate justice pact as leaders gather at COP31 
Lebanon: After 48 years patrolling the Blue Line, UN peacekeepers prepare exit 
Hotter World, Older Population: How Long Can Climate COPs Ignore the Obvious? 
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2026