Auroras form when electrons from space ride waves in Earth’s magnetic field
By re-creating the conditions for an aurora in the lab, researchers have confirmed how these bright, shimmery curtains of light form. The northern lights...
Confirmation that Europe has just had its chilliest Spring in years is cold comfort for the planet, amid rising greenhouse gas levels which will...
Ending the “war on nature” must be part of global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday in his...
50 years ago, NASA relaxed quarantine rules for returning moon missions
Lunar quarantine dropped — Science News, May 8, 1971 Spacecraft and men from Earth can contaminate space … with Earth-related material or organisms. But there...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 08 (IPS) – With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and...
VIENNA/LONDON, Jun 08 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on women and girls, and the fallout has shown how deeply...
PARIS, Jun 08 (IPS) – Increasingly, youth are rising up to declare that they’ve had enough of the cyclical exploitation of the environment that...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners are working to restore water supply to roughly 200,000 people, including some 100,000 children, affected by the...
Protection call for Burkina Faso civilians after terror attack leaves 132 dead
Communities in rural Burkina Faso urgently need greater protection from violent extremists, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, insisted on Monday, in response to a deadly...
Global push needed to ensure ‘clean, affordable and sustainable electricity’ for all
During the last decade, more people around the world have gained access to electricity than ever before. However, the number still not connected has...
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