This tiny, sizzling exoplanet could be made of molten iron
A newly discovered exoplanet is really making astronomers prove their mettle. Planet GJ 367b is smaller than Earth, denser than iron and hot enough...
African Network Fosters Unity, Fights Gender Discrimination & Advances Sustainable Development
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 02 (IPS) – The widespread 21-month-old lockdown, triggered by the corona virus pandemic, had a destructive impact on the global economy,...
UNHCR chief calls for mechanism to deal with ‘unprecedented’ displacement in Mexico and Central America
Lack of opportunities, gangs, organized crime, the ravages of the pandemic and climate change, have triggered the displacement of nearly one million people in Mexico and...
‘Bodyright’ campaign launched, to end rise in gender-based violence online
Corporate logos and Intellectual Property (IP) receive “greater protection online than we do as human beings”, the UN’s women’s health agency that works to end gender-based violence, UNFPA, said on Thursday, launching a new bodyright campaign to help shield...
Clean Energy Alone Won’t Uplift Impoverished Nations — We Must Invest in People
Dec 02 (IPS) – Last month, at the COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow, a consortium of philanthropies, led by The Rockefeller Foundation, announced...
Building a Disability-Friendly Workplace: Why Includability Matters
BENGALURU, India, Dec 02 (IPS) – In her famous speech ‘The Danger of a Single Story’, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns us against a...
Emergency aid needs set to rise by 17% to assist 274 million, UN humanitarians warn
A total of 274 million people worldwide will need emergency aid and protection in 2022, a 17 per cent increase compared with this year, UN humanitarians said...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec 02 (IPS) – The International Volunteer Day, on December 5, is not just one of the many internationally observed days that...
50 years ago, a 6-year-old boy became the first known rabies survivor
Apparent cure for rabies — Science News, December 4, 1971 The painful and always fatal virus disease rabies may at last be licked —...
Agreement by countries to launch a process to develop a new global accord on pandemic prevention and response is cause for hope, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in...
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