Living in 2024 — with all of the advances in technology — is pretty great. The ability to reach anyone at any time via text (without having to actually speak to them)? Fantastic! But texting isn’t all roses and fairy-tales. There are also times when a text message can make us want to do this: […]
BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international human rights organization on Thursday urged the Thai government to stop forcing political dissidents who fled to Thailand for safety to return to authoritarian home countries, where they may face torture, persecution or death. In a new report, Human Rights Watch said Thai authorities repeatedly violated international law by […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman — a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University — received a small brain sample in his lab. Although tiny, the 1 cubic millimeter of tissue was big […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — An Islamist group operating in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province used boys as young as 13 in attacks on a town last week and residents who were forced to flee the fighting recognized some of the child soldiers as their missing relatives, advocacy group Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Al-Shabab, which […]
DENVER (KDVR) — Auraria Campus officials say there are health and safety concerns at an encampment protest against the war in Gaza. There are safety concerns with more unhoused people within the encampment, according to campus officials, and more health issues with trash and human waste. Auraria Campus has second lockdown in days after protesters […]
Many people understand the concept of bias at some intuitive level. In society, and in artificial intelligence systems, racial and gender biases are well documented. If society could somehow remove bias, would all problems go away? The late Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who was a key figure in the field of behavioral economics, argued in […]
More human remains have been discovered in Sumner County in the same area where authorities found remains on Friday, the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday. “The remains are … believed to be connected to an ongoing homicide investigation in Sedgwick County,” the sheriff’s office said. “The victims of the homicide were last seen […]
Human remains dug up four decades ago on a Florida beach have finally been identified as those of a Maryland woman who went missing in 1968, supposedly disappearing with her then-boyfriend. The mystery of Mary Alice Pultz was finally resolved last week when a Florida sheriff’s office said that it had identified the remains found […]
Given Australia’s gigantic scale and wild nature, archaeological research can be difficult and costly. Where to start digging on such a vast continent, where the archaeological sites can often be remote and difficult to reach? Now a joint team of scientists from The University of Sydney, Southern Cross University, Flinders University, and Université Grenoble-Alpes has […]
A South Carolina woman who had been missing for more than six months was found dead, the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. The investigation led authorities to a wooded area in the 2100 block of Silver Bluff Road, where a search ended with the discovery of human remains. Aiken Coroner Darryl Ables identified the […]
A fraudster whose marriage broke down spiralled into a gruesome, lucrative addiction to extreme body modifications that has now ended in him being jailed for life. Marius Gustavson, who already had two previous fraud convictions in his native country Norway, descended into a subculture centred around male castration, penis removal and other grisly procedures as […]
The last of nearly 100 tanker truckloads of treated sanitary sewer waste were applied May 7 to the soil of the historic, 122-acre Hickory Bluff Farms tucked just inside the northwest corner of Interstate 270 and Route 315. This left some neighbors concerned about traffic, odor and the proximity of biosolids to their homes, streams […]