The New Social Contract: an Opportunity for Deliberative Participation
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 09 (IPS) – These days there hasn’t been certainly a shortage of reports portraying the decline of liberal democracy around the...
Job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with high food prices are making it hard for millions of families to get enough to...
Half of the world’s children experience violence on and offline in some form every year, with “devastating and life-long consequences” for their mental health,...
Time running out for countries on climate crisis front line
The world’s running out of time to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius, a matter of life or death for climate...
Top UN Haiti envoy hails commitment to hold new elections
The UN Special Representative for Haiti on Thursday, acknowledged the legitimacy of Prime Minister Claude Joseph to lead the Caribbean nation, following the “cowardly”...
The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in efforts to resolve their decade-long disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), senior officials told the Security Council on Thursday. ...
These weird, thin ice crystals are springy and bendy
Try to bend an icicle and it’ll snap in two. With its tendency to crack into shards, ice’s reputation for being stiff and brittle...
Sea otters stay warm thanks to leaky mitochondria in their muscles
Sea otters’ secret to staying warm isn’t in thick stores of blubber. It’s in their muscles. Leaks in the energy-generating parts of muscle cells...
How Romanesco cauliflower forms its spiraling fractals
The swirling green cones that make up the head of Romanesco cauliflower also form a fractal pattern — one that repeats itself on multiple...
How your DNA may affect whether you get COVID-19 or become gravely ill
Some people can blame their DNA for making them more likely to get COVID-19 or becoming severely ill if they get infected. A study...
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