BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 30 (IPS) – The world is emerging from the biggest social and economic shock in living memory, but it will be...
Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines may block infection as well as disease
Vaccines against COVID-19 are about 90 percent effective at blocking coronavirus infections, real-world studies of health care workers, firefighters, police, teachers and other essential...
Dazzling underwater photos capture new views and scientific detail of fish larvae
The open ocean is a veritable soup of tiny critters, including newborn fishes. It’s hard to learn about them, though, because they are mere...
Developing Countries COVID-19 Debt Crisis Could Put 2030 Agenda & Paris Agreement Completely Out of Reach
BONN, Germany, Mar 30 (IPS) – The inability of developing nations to spend on post COVID-19 recovery and resilience has placed the world on...
Uranium ‘snowflakes’ could set off thermonuclear explosions of dead stars
Tiny crystals of uranium could set off massive explosions within a dead star, physicists propose, making for a cosmic version of a thermonuclear bomb....
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 30 (IPS) – COVID-19 has set back the uneven progress of recent decades, directly causing more than two million...
In Syria, a Decade of Death, Destruction, Displacement, Disease, Dread & Despair
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 30 (IPS) – The conflict in Syria is now ten years old. A decade of death, destruction, displacement, disease, dread and...
Identities
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 30 (IPS) – I was born in the winter in 1990 in a country not my own i was born...
Here’s why humans chose particular groups of stars as constellations
The Big Dipper’s stars make up a conspicuous landmark in the sky of the Northern Hemisphere. Even novice stargazers can easily pick out the...
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 29 (IPS) – Nuhara Syeda is with HarvestPlus, which is part of the CGIAR* Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and...
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