<em>International Womens Day, 2021</em><br>Gender Equality is The Roadmap We Need to Overcome Our Most Pressing Global Challenges
NEW YORK, Mar 04 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day March 8.In 2020,...
Vaccine Passports Are Controversial But Their Technology Will Bring Big Benefits to Developing Countries
GENEVA, Mar 04 (IPS) – The United Nations is using the digital government technology behind vaccine passports to help developing countries provide essential services...
People who have had COVID-19 might need only one shot of a coronavirus vaccine
People who have already had COVID-19 — even if they didn’t show symptoms — may be able to get away with just a single...
This soft robot withstands crushing pressures at the ocean’s greatest depths
Inspired by a strange fish that can withstand the punishing pressures of the deepest reaches of the ocean, scientists have devised a soft autonomous...
Three visions of the future, inspired by neuroscience’s past and present
A century ago, science’s understanding of the brain was primitive, like astronomy before telescopes. Certain brain injuries were known to cause specific problems, like...
PHILADELPHIA, US, Mar 03 (IPS) – In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, at a certain hour of the evening, people in cities...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mar 03 (IPS) – Marcela Loaiza was just 21 years old when a man approached her at her workplace in Pereira City,...
Myanmar: Protestors Plea for International Help as Analysts Fear Full Military Might
BANGKOK, Mar 02 (IPS) – Myanmar activists have called on the international community for help as security forces loyal to the military continue their...
International Women’s Day, 2021 – The Problem of the Respectable International Women’s Day – an Appeal for Good Trouble
NAIROBI / ROME, Mar 03 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day March 8.The...
CANBERRA, Australia, Mar 03 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic (henceforth pandemic) has women particularly hard. In almost all countries, women constitute the bulk of...
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