Scientists remotely controlled the social behavior of mice with light
With the help of headsets and backpacks on mice, scientists are using light to switch nerve cells on and off in the rodents’ brains...
Free up ‘bottlenecks’ stifling Africa’s agri-food sector, urges FAO chief
The UN agriculture chief warned on Monday that severe underfunding of Africa’s agri-food sector has boosted food insecurity and was hampering the future development of...
How to Assess the Willingness of US to Suspend Patent Protection on Vaccines?
BRUSSELS / ROME, May 10 (IPS) – The news of the Biden Administration’s willingness to lift intellectual property rights protections in the case of...
NEW YORK, May 10 (IPS) – Data, analysis and information are essential building blocks in our race to save humanity from the clear and...
Planet-forming disks around stars may come preloaded with ingredients for life
The chemistry leading to life may start before stars are even born. In the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around a young star,...
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (IPS) – As negotiations for the upcoming election—or re-election– of a UN Secretary-General gather momentum, one undeniable fact looms heavily...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 10 (IPS) – Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate control....
A common antibiotic slows a mysterious coral disease
Slathering corals in a common antibiotic seems to temporarily soothe a mysterious tissue-eating disease, new research suggests. Just off Florida, a type of coral...
Middle East Envoys express deep concern over East Jerusalem violence
The Envoys of the Middle East Quartet (from the European Union, Russia, the United States, and the United Nations), have expressed deep concern over...
How India’s COVID-19 crisis became the worst in the world
PUNE, India — Mohanish Ellitam watched helplessly as his 49-year-old mother’s oxygen levels dipped dangerously and she gasped for air. “I could see her stomach...
Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo 
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks 
‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes 
‘Warned but not protected’: Four in ten adults in England ignore heat alerts