Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by mimicking the signature whistle of the dolphin they want to address, and parrots have been found to address each other in a similar way, […]
It’s not a good day to be a Kenya Moore apologist. Real Housewives of Atlanta is currently filming Season 16 and words on the street is that Ms. Moore is messier than ever. Allegedly. The long-time peach holder has her fans (ahem, guilty as charged) but she certainly makes it hard to defend her. This […]
The stock market continues to thrive this year, with the S&P 500 up almost 13% and the NASDAQ flying high with a 16% surge. Just like last year, the mega-cap tech stocks have been leading the gains, and providing a positive impetus for the markets as a whole. But the tech giants are not the […]
A poll has suggested that Reform UK’s Nigel Farage is the most popular option to succeed British prime minister Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservatives if Labour win the UK general election. The poll by Redfield and Wilton, conducted for The Independent, surveyed 2,000 adults on Wednesday and Thursday and showed 19 per cent […]
A Kansas Highway Patrol accident report suggests a southbound driver made a U-turn while remaining in the southbound lanes before he was killed in a head-on, wrong-way collision early April 29 on the Kansas Turnpike southwest of Topeka. Michael Goering 72, died at the scene, according to an accident report The Capital-Journal paid $7.21 to […]
Neanderthal genes seen in modern humans may have entered our DNA through an interval of interbreeding starting about 47,000 years ago that lasted nearly 7,000 years, new research finds. Neanderthals were among the closest extinct relatives of modern humans (Homo sapiens), with the ancestors of both lineages diverging about 500,000 years ago. More than a […]
Strange behavior in a massive cluster of merging galaxies could be explained if dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious stuff, can collide with itself. However, the most favored model of cosmology right now is the cold dark matter (CDM) model — and it suggests that dark matter, which is effectively invisible because it doesn’t interact with […]
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Understanding the Big Bang and its aftermath—especially the ideas of universal expansion and acceleration—is one of the biggest cosmological challenges that exists. The leading explanation, known as Lambda-CDM, relies on the yet-to-be-directly-observed concepts of dark matter and dark energy, and […]
In the Benin city of Abomey, there are two funerary huts reportedly made from human blood—the result of a voodoo sacrificial tradition. French archeologists have now analyzed the mortar of the structure and determined that it does contain hemoglobin and immunoglobulin from chickens and humans, revealing intimate details of this bloody tradition. The researchers also […]
Anthony Joshua could call time on his boxing career “at the end of 2026 or even next year”, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. The British fighter, 34, is bidding to become a three-time heavyweight world champion and his next fight is scheduled for Wembley on September 21st. Joshua could fight for Oleksandr Usyk’s IBF title […]
Jun. 4—An attorney for a man facing a murder charge in connection with a fatal shooting on St. John Street suggested in court on Tuesday that his client was acting in self defense. Abdirahman Mahmoud, 36, pleaded not guilty to the charge in May. Police say they had surveillance footage of a man who resembles […]
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, had hoped for a landslide victory in the country’s six-week general election – the largest display of democracy, by far, in a year of voting around the world. But with results still coming in on June 4, 2024, the party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, looked to […]