Migraine drugs are getting more precise. Choosing the right one is still tricky
Migraine prevention drugs are more targeted than ever before, and new guidelines may help doctors predict which will work for each patient.
These worms move faster when you give them less space
California blackworms can squeeze through narrow channels faster than they can wriggle across wide ones, a finding that may help with robot design.
35 Years After Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Choice Still Challenges the World
TOKYO / ASTANA, August 31 (IPS) – Across the vast steppe of northeastern Kazakhstan, the scars of the Cold War remain visible. At the...
Beyond Resilience: Climate Change and the Rights of Char Dwellers in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh, August 31 (IPS) – Bangladesh’s riverine and coastal chars have always been landscapes of movement, but climate change is making that movement...
Africa’s Pastoralists Need More Than COP17’s $1.2 billion Rangelands Pledge
DAR ES SALAAM, August 31 (IPS) – When the rains fail across Tanzania’s northern Maasai Steppe, herders drive their cattle farther in search of...
To nap or not to nap? Science is still waking up to the question
Many people struggle to sleep enough at night. Surprisingly, science cannot say if adding in a nap to sleep in two blocks is healthy.
‘The lake is our life’: Protecting a shared lifeline in Uganda
On the shores of Nkondo, in Uganda’s Kikuube district, the day begins before sunrise. Fishers enter the lake to fish, while families around Lake...
Rising seas, rising stakes: What increasing sea-levels mean to humanity
The ocean is rising faster now than at any point in recorded history. The impacts are already being felt and the threats are growing....
Security Council LIVE: Deadly gang attacks spike in Haiti
Following a deadly spate of gang attacks on civilians in Haiti and amid reports of illicit weapons slipping into the Caribbean country, the Security...
WHO reports more than 3,200 attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare system since full-scale invasion
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 3,205 attacks on healthcare facilities have been carried out, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for...
Brain implants are helping people who’ve lost their voice 
WHO calls for urgent health action across the Eastern Mediterranean 
Yemen: WFP warns of potential ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as fighting blocks aid delivery 
Security Council LIVE: Libya in the spotlight amid ‘encouraging progress’