Researchers Are Using Tarantula Venom To Design New Painkillers
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Tarantula venom may be surprisingly useful.
The search for safer, more effective and non-addictive painkillers has led scientists to an unlikely source: tarantula...
Roy’s Final Speech as an IHEU Delegate
As a delegate of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) at the United Nations over a 12 year period, former Head of Delegation, Roy Brown,...
Watch Physicist Brian Greene Explain Gravitational Waves To Stephen Colbert
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene makes an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the two banter about the historic discovery of gravitational...
Death for “apostasy” must not stand! Free Ashraf Fayadh
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) joins around 60 human rights organisations internationally, protesting the death sentence handed down last week to Ashraf Fayadh in Saudi Arabia. Following an unfair trial during which he was denied access to a lawyer, Fayadh was variously accused of promoting atheism in his poetry, insulting the Prophet Muhammad, as well as “having [...]
Nothing New in the Ladies’ Room
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Long before the discussion concerning laws that allow transgenders into the women's restrooms, wearing their dresses and...
Europe stands with Bangladeshi atheists at Solidarity Book Fair in The Hague
Secular bloggers who fled Bangladesh in fear for their lives, and two survivors of machete attacks, joined human rights organizations at the Bangladesh Solidarity Book Fair...
$250,000 Shark-Spotting Drone Debuts In Australia
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A great white, one of the types of shark spotted off the coast of New South Wales.
Although the chance of dying...
Atheists in Kenya must be officially recognised
An atheist group in Kenya has been denied formal registration as a recognised association on the grounds that “The Registrar has reasonable cause to believe that the interests of...
Scientists Discover Extraordinary Jurassic Fossil Bed In Argentina
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The Patagonian landscape as it exists today.
Palaeontologists in southern Argentina have uncovered an enormous network of fossils dating back to the Jurassic...
IHEU calls on UN to reinforce human rights mechanisms protecting LGBTI people and SRHR
Today at the United Nations, the International Humanist and Ethical Union’s director of advocacy, Elizabeth O’Casey, again called on the Human Rights Council to...