Cone snail venom may trick mate-seeking worms into becoming meals
Normally, it takes the ghostly light of the full moon to coax certain worms from hiding on the seafloor to mate. Out in the...
Some COVID-19 survivors face another foe: PTSD
The sickest of COVID-19 patients struggle to breathe. Facing a disease new to science, they’re isolated from their loved ones and treated by doctors...
Women Will Not Reach Parity at the Pinnacle of Power for Another 130 Years, Predicts UN
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS) – The United Nations says the highest levels of political power remain the furthest from achieving gender parity in...
Peace & Security in Armed Conflicts Mean Presence of Food & Absence of Gunfire
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS) – The author is Executive Director at Oxfam InternationalIn 1941, the people of Greece were facing a horrific winter....
Only Small Percentage of COVID-19 Recovery Allocated to Green Initiatives
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) – Last year, only $368 billion of a $14.6tn budget geared towards COVID-19 recovery measures across the world’s largest...
A tour of ‘Four Lost Cities’ reveals modern ties to ancient people
Four Lost CitiesAnnalee NewitzW.W. Norton & Co., $26.95 It’s a familiar trope in movies and books: A bright-eyed protagonist moves to the big city...
The COVID-19 pandemic is now a year old. What have scientists learned?
One year ago, the World Health Organization declared that the novel coronavirus outbreak was a pandemic (SN: 3/11/20). Little did we know the uncertainty,...
Archaea microbes fold, twist and contort their DNA in extreme ways
Single-celled archaea microbes pack their DNA into flexible coils that expand and stretch much like a Slinky does. This kind of molecular gymnastics had...
More Can & Must be Done to Eradicate Caste-Based Discrimination, Says UN Rights Chief
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 11 (IPS) – There is hardly a better way to promote human rights in Nepal than celebrating Muskan Khatun for being...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 11 (IPS) – COVID-19 restrictions exposed women and girls to heightened abuse – revealing the conditions in which gender-based violence...
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