Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine has 100 percent efficacy in young people
Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine proved highly effective in adults. Now it appears to work well in younger people too. In a Phase III...
Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines
Using blobs of skin cells from frog embryos, scientists have grown creatures unlike anything else on Earth, a new study reports. These microscopic “living...
A meteor may have exploded over Antarctica 430,000 years ago
Seventeen tiny particles recovered from a flat-topped mountain in eastern Antarctica suggest that a space rock shattered low in the atmosphere over the ice-smothered...
Stone Age culture bloomed inland, not just along Africa’s coasts
Africa’s southern Kalahari Desert is not typically regarded as a hotbed of Stone Age innovations. And yet human culture blossomed there around 105,000 years...
These are the 5 costliest invasive species, causing billions in damages
Invasive species can wreak havoc on local ecosystems. Cleaning up that biological wreckage comes at a big price. These invaders, often thrust into new...
Recipes with a Taste of Sustainable Development on the Coast of El Salvador
SAN LUIS LA HERRADURA, El Salvador, Mar 31 (IPS) – Salvadoran villager Maria Luz Rodriguez placed the cheese on top of the lasagna she...
Farming-Specific Loans Help Tanzania’s Smallholders Increase Productivity
MADABA/MAFINGA, Tanzania, Mar 31 (IPS) – Small agricultural loans, disbursed through mobile phones and targeting specific farming activities at different phases of production, have...
Physicists’ devotion to symmetry has led them astray before
Second of two parts Physicists have a lot in common with Ponce de León and U2’s Bono. After decades of searching, they aren’t getting...
GENEVA, Mar 31 (IPS) – The writer is with Geneva Solutions, a non-profit journalistic platform dedicated to International Geneva.The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Hurricane...
Weather radar shows 30 metric tons of grasshoppers swarmed Las Vegas one night
The dazzling lights of Las Vegas are meant to attract. And on one summer night, they did just that, luring millions of grasshoppers— a...
Coordinated action on clean air and climate change can net $15 for every dollar spent 
Human rights chief Türk renews call for end to spiralling Sudan war 
AI: Türk urges action before it becomes an ‘existential risk to humanity’ 
UNGA 81: A United Nations at a Turning Point