As the Israeli military closed in on Kamal Adwan Hospital in recent weeks — the last remaining major health care facility in northern Gaza — Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya remained inside to record the worsening situation. In one video, Abu Safiya, the hospital’s director, showed an intensive care unit with blown out windows where he […]
BBC Khaled al Hamad dug up human remains in search of his two brothers, who vanished under the Assad regime Adra is a strange kind of neighbourhood cemetery – two lone graves sit in an empty expanse of bumpy earth, sparsely covered with grass. For years, this was an area tightly controlled by President Bashar […]
new video loaded: Searching for Syria’s Disappeared transcript Back transcript Searching for Syria’s Disappeared Taher al-Zain’s father disappeared 12 years ago at the height of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. Now, like thousands of other Syrians, he is trying to find clues about what happened, and whether or not he may still be alive. Taher al-Zain has […]
Vultures in the Indian subcontinent dropped from a thriving population in the millions to a mere … [+] 20,000 within a decade—then a public health crisis emerged. getty Vultures have been held in twisted fascination throughout history. Their association with death may be a practical necessity for them, but the human world has always sought […]
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo Library The drug KarXT, sold as Cobenfy, gained regulatory approval in the United States in September, making it the first approved schizophrenia drug targeting muscarinic receptors found throughout the brain and […]
Photographs of an anthogorgiid host from Kashiwajima, Kochi. Galleries and burrows are highlighted in blue and yellow, respectively. Yellow arrows indicate burrow openings. Credit: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1780 A small team of marine scientists from the University of the Ryukyus, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and […]
Nearly 50 years after the cold case murder of a 19-year-old who went missing from her Illinois village, authorities have identified her killer through new DNA evidence. In March of 1979, Kathy Halle disappeared while heading to pick up her sister from a nearby shopping center in North Aurora, according to local authorities. Police initially […]
