Famous brain sketches come to life again as embroideries
In the late 1800s, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish brain scientist, spent long hours in his attic drawing elaborate cells. His careful, solitary...
An upwelling of rock beneath the Atlantic may drive continents apart
An upsurge of hot rock from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean may be driving the continents on either side apart. The Americas are moving...
Water Graves: Nightmare for Mexican Fishermen
MEXICO CITY, Feb 04 (IPS) – All of Erizo’s nightmares are the same. Since his return from the ocean – almost unrecognizable – every...
How a tiny spider uses silk to lift prey 50 times its own weight
A family of spiders can catch prey many times their own weight by hitching silk lines to their quarry and hoisting the meaty prize...
An ancient Egyptian mummy was wrapped in an unusual mud shell
An unusual mud-wrapped mummy is leading archaeologists to rethink how nonroyal Egyptians preserved their dead. CT scans of an Egyptian mummy from around 1,200...
GENEVA, Feb 03 (IPS) – Saber Azam is a former United Nations official who served with UNHCR and DPKO in key positions in Europe,...
Myanmar Looks Back in Fear and Anger after Military Coup
YANGON, Myanmar, Feb 03 (IPS) – As night fell on Tuesday, the second day of the military coup in Myanmar, two familiar scenes were...
Nepal Struggles to Preserve Its Indigenous Languages as Those Speaking Them Dwindle
KATMANDU, Feb 03 (IPS) – At last count Nepal had 129 spoken languages, but even as new ones are identified, others are becoming extinct....
Einstein’s theory of general relativity unveiled a dynamic and bizarre cosmos
Albert Einstein’s mind reinvented space and time, foretelling a universe so bizarre and grand that it has challenged the limits of human imagination. An...
Top 10 science anniversaries to celebrate in 2021
Centuries from now, 2021 will be celebrated as an anniversary year most noted for getting rid of 2020. It will be less remembered as...
Protecting Earth’s fragile biodiversity takes spotlight at Armenia talks 
Gaza: Funding cuts leave half a million without food assistance 
These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger 
Afro-Brazilian Religious Communities Face Mounting Discrimination Amid the Climate Crisis