DR Congo Ebola emergency: Calls grow for urgent humanitarian access
Aid teams trying to keep deadly Ebola disease from spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are increasingly concerned about ongoing fighting and violence…
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Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors meet as West Bank tensions rise, Gaza plan stalls
The Security Council met Monday morning with prospects for peace in the Middle East under strain on two fronts. In the West Bank, settler violence…
LIVE: World leaders take stock of global fight against racism
World leaders are meeting in the General Assembly to assess how far the world has come in combating racism and how far it still has…
World News in Brief: Refugee funding, US migration policy triggers ‘cascade’ of rights violations, world forests report, restorative justice in Colombia
Support for water and sanitation at the biggest camp in the world for Syrian refugees is under threat from a lack of funding – combined…
APOD: 2026 September 28 – Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 28 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the…
‘Contract between humans and river’: Bristol Avon’s rights enshrined in charter
River charters part of wider movement establishing ‘moral’ framework to protect nature and hold institutions to accountOne Monday morning in spring last year, 12 people…
The Time for Public Pharma is Now
To make medicines more affordable, policymakers are increasingly turning to price controls and out-of-pocket caps. These measures, while lowering costs, leave decisions about which drugs…
Reliable Robots: Meet Johnson’s Dexterous Robotics Team
The idea of humans and robots working side-by-side in space was once the stuff of science fiction, but with NASA launching increasingly complex missions deeper…
Unified U.S. Site Blocking Bill Targets ISPs and DNS Resolvers But Spares VPNs
Senator Thom Tillis and Rep. Zoe Lofgren have introduced their joint site blocking bill, the DEFEND IP Act. The proposal comes less than two weeks…
The metastasis hoax?
An anonymous blogger cites a virus denier who claims that our understanding of the mechanisms of cancer metastasis is a “hoax.” I cringe but cannot…