Mothers Get 8x More Paid Leave Than Fathers: UN Data
A UN Women and World Bank brief finds mothers average 196 days of paid leave and fathers just 25, with 66 of 190 economies giving fathers…
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WMO Urges Early Action as Strong El Niño Builds
The WMO says the current El Niño could be unprecedented and is urging aid groups to use forecasts and early warnings before floods, drought…
Malaria Vaccine Price Cut 40% in Gavi-UNICEF Deal
A Gavi and UNICEF deal will cut the RTS,S malaria vaccine to EUR 5.50 a dose, about 40% less, saving around US$50 million between 2027 and…
WHO Launches US$7M Healthy Ageing Initiative
WHO, Hong Kong's Institute of Philanthropy and CUHK launch a four-year, US$7 million healthy ageing initiative, with work starting in…
UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2026: 1.5°C Overshoot
UNEP's Emissions Gap Report 2026 says 1.5°C will be exceeded, but cutting emissions 45% by 2035 could limit the peak to 1.7-1.8°C and…
WHO Issues First Guidance on New TB Test Evidence
WHO's first Guidance on evidence generation for new TB diagnostics, released Oct. 21, 2026, tells researchers how to study new tests so…
Samarkand Summit on Children's Wellbeing Opens
The UN-backed World Summit Investing in Children's Wellbeing opened in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Oct. 21, 2026, with 600+ participants and…
EU Parliament Backs High-Speed Rail Network Plan
MEPs voted 558 to 23 on Oct. 20, 2026 for a connected EU high-speed rail network linking major cities and regions, with dedicated funding…
WHO launches heat-health indicators for children
WHO, WMO, UNICEF and UNFPA released the first priority indicators to help countries track how extreme heat affects pregnant women, newborns…
Hubble: light escaped galaxies before supernova winds
A Nature Astronomy study using Hubble finds ionizing light leaks from starburst galaxies before supernova winds form, challenging an idea…
Thwaites Glacier may add more to sea level rise: NASA
A NASA JPL model that treats Thwaites Glacier's grounding line as a wide zone matched satellite records four times better and, in some…
Webb spots one of the most distant supernovas ever
JWST caught supernova AT 2026abck just days after it exploded, about 1.15 billion years after the Big Bang. Why it looks like slow motion…
Planet born after its star died: a white dwarf clue
Rare niobium in white dwarf HS 0209+0832 points to a planet that formed from a dying star's debris, a first, say astronomers using Hubble…
EU approves 14-day refunds and one travel claim form
The European Parliament approved rules giving travellers a full refund within 14 days, even via booking sites, plus one EU claim form.…
NASA Mars helicopter blades target much longer flights
A thinner NASA rotor blade, roamx-0201, could let future Mars helicopters fly up to 18.7 km in one go, versus Ingenuity's 0.7 km,…
NASA study maps human impact on Earth's water
A NASA study of 23 years of GRACE gravity data found 40 regions where irrigation, reservoirs and land use shape water storage, with steep…
Physicists crack part of the superconductivity puzzle
A University of Bristol-led team reports in Nature Physics that spinning electrons help copper-oxide materials carry electricity with zero…
Euclid space telescope discovers its first new comet
ESA says Euclid has found its first previously unknown comet, C/2026 S1 (Euclid), about 1.3 billion km away on a long orbit high above the…
Japan launches MMX probe to Mars moon Phobos
JAXA launched the MMX spacecraft on an H3 rocket on Oct. 20 (JST), starting the first mission to collect samples from a Mars moon and…
2026 Nobel Chemistry: Kagan & Soai
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on molecular chirality — how one mirror-image form of a…
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