Controlling nerve cells with light opened new ways to study the brain
Some big scientific discoveries aren’t actually discovered. They are borrowed. That’s what happened when scientists enlisted proteins from an unlikely lender: green algae. Cells...
How one medical team is bringing COVID-19 vaccines to hard-to-reach Hispanic communities
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For People with Disabilities, COVID-19 Lays Bare the Weaknesses in Social Safety Nets
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 (IPS) – The 14th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
The Energy Revolution Is Here: How to Be Part of It
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 (IPS) – The 2021 High-level Dialogue on Energy, scheduled to take place June 21-25, represents the first global gathering on...
Innovative measures to address debt are required to help the world’s more than 100 middle-income countries expand their economies and exit the COVID-19 pandemic,...
New research published by the UN health agency on Thursday revealed that suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide – taking...
Sexual violence in conflict “reverberates down generations” and threatens both human and international security, the UN chief said on Thursday in his message for...
Amid worsening socioeconomic conditions, rising criminal gang violence and a resurgence of COVID-19, Haiti’s leaders must commit to good-faith dialogue aimed at ending a...
Collapse may not always be inevitable for marine ice cliffs
When it comes to global warming and sea level rise, scientists have made some dire predictions. One of the most calamitous involves the widespread...
Physicists used LIGO’s mirrors to approach a quantum limit
Quantum mechanics usually applies to very small objects: atoms, electrons and the like. But physicists have now brought the equivalent of a 10-kilogram object...
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