Debt Moratoria in the Next Pandemic: Be Prepared, and Be Fair
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 25 (IPS) – Imagine it is 2025 and that, unfortunately, another pandemic is sweeping the world. Much like in the 2020...
How using sheepskin for legal papers may have prevented fraud
Fraudulent efforts to tweak legal documents in Great Britain may have been thwarted by the very parchment those documents were written on, a new...
Atomic clocks take a step toward redefining the second
A new measurement moves scientists closer to revamping how we keep time. After scientists redefined the unit of mass, the kilogram, in 2019, they...
Centering Equity: A Vision for Global Health in 2021
DEHRADUN, India/OXFORD, UK, Mar 24 (IPS) – 2020 will be remembered as the year that changed the world, as COVID-19 spared no country, no...
A new black hole image reveals the behemoth’s magnetic fields
Astronomers have gotten their first glimpse of the magnetic fields tangled around a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope has unveiled the magnetism of...
The dark matter mystery deepens with the demise of a reported detection
First of two parts In mystery stories, the chief suspect almost always gets exonerated before the end of the book. Typically because a key...
Hope & Numbers: What will it take to Tip the Scales on Climate Action?
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Mar 24 (IPS) – The writer is International Climate Political Advisor at Greenpeace InternationalWe should be well on the way to...
Dim lighting may raise the risk of a West Nile virus exposure
Don’t dim the lights. A survey using more than 6,000 chickens across Florida shows that low levels of light pollution may increase the risk...
Why do sea turtles, penguins and sharks sometimes just swim in circles or spirals?
Marine science has its own crop circle mysteries. Sea turtles, sharks, penguins and even whales sometimes just go circular, swimming around and around in...
Here’s what makes 4 promising COVID-19 vaccines unique — and potentially useful
Barely a year after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, 11 vaccines worldwide have been granted emergency use authorization or...
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