A gene defect may make rabbits do handstands instead of hop
One defective gene might turn some bunnies’ hops into handstands, a new study suggests. To move quickly, a breed of domesticated rabbit called sauteur...
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine holds up in an updated analysis of trial data
Analysis of the latest data from a clinical trial for a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford shows the shot...
Octopus sleep includes a frenzied, colorful, ‘active’ stage
Octopuses cycle through two stages of slumber, a new study reports. First comes quiet sleep, and then a shift to a twitchy, active sleep...
A plant gene may have helped whiteflies become a major pest
At some point between 35 million and 80 million years ago, a whitefly landed on a leaf and started sucking its sweet sap. That...
Humanitarian & Food Aid Can Never be Enough to Manage Cascading Disasters
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 (IPS) – The intersection of crisis, climate change and COVID-19 has resulted in a “rapid rise in hunger”, according to...
50 years ago, experiments hinted at the possibility of life on Mars
Organics on Mars — Science News, March 27, 1971 [Researchers] have exposed a mixture of gases simulating conditions believed to exist on the surface...
Tech Savvy Youth with High Social-Emotional Skills Succeed in Agriculture – Study Shows
IBADAAN, Nigeria, Mar 23 (IPS) – Saheed Babajide, a young animal production graduate and a manager at a national milk production company in Iseyin, Nigeria,...
DHAKA, Mar 24 (IPS) – The building that was once the largest health centre in the Kutupalong refugee camp, serving some 55,000 Rohingya refugees...
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...
Light is hard to block from every direction. This physicist found a way 
Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens 
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening 
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo