UN to Survivors, Victims of Terrorism: ‘You are Not Alone’
Survivors of terrorism joined UN officials in hosting a virtual high-level event marking the fourth annual International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to...
UN deputy chief praises resilience of Haiti’s people, says ‘incredible’ relief effort underway
On a two-day mission to Haiti, the UN deputy chief said on Friday that relief teams are “working day and night”, and that she...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned an armed attack on a convoy near the town of Arbinda, in the north of Burkina Faso,...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 (IPS) – As the 20-year-old occupation of Afghanistan came to an inglorious end last week, there were heavy losses suffered...
NEW YORK, Aug 20 (IPS) – The writer, a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University (NYU),...
50 years ago, physicists thought they found the W boson. They hadn’t
The W particle may have been found — Science News, August 21, 1971 Physicists distinguish four different kinds of force by which objects in...
How fossilization preserved a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab’s brain
Paleontologists can spend years carefully splitting rocks in search of the perfect fossil. But with a 310-million-year-old horseshoe crab brain, nature did the work,...
‘Ghost games’ spotlight the psychological effect fans have on referees
When the fans are away, the home team loses its sway, new research suggests. During the 2019–2020 season, European soccer teams played in front...
Blue helmets from Thailand working with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) are not only doing their bit to repair and rehabilitate critical...
Last year was the deadliest on record for Rohingya refugees journeying through the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR)...
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