Editor’s Note: This article contains details that readers may find distressing. Five years ago, a 13-year-old girl, the daughter of poor wage laborers from one of India’s most marginalized communities, was allegedly sexually abused by one of her neighbors in the village where she lived. Her alleged abuser filmed it and police are investigating whether […]
A riot inside a prison in the southern Mexico state of Tabasco has left seven inmates dead, leading to family members attempting to break inside to check on their relatives. Four police officers and six other inmates were left injured in the incident, which broke out in the town of Villahermosa on Thursday. The BBC’s […]
Naila Al-Abassi Intisar, Dima and Najah were arrested and imprisoned with their mother and three other siblings Families of Syrian detainees have been searching for their missing loved ones since thousands of prisoners were released after the fall of the Assad regime on Sunday. The family of a Syrian dentist who was arrested along with […]
Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli has presented evidence that her lab has not worked with close relatives of SARS-CoV-2.Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty After years of rumours that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China, the virologist at the centre of the claims has presented data on dozens of new coronaviruses collected […]
Footprints made by two species of ancient human relative were found in Kenya. This one is thought to have been left by Paranthropus boisei.Credit: Kevin G. Hatala Some 1.5 million years ago, two ancient species crossed paths on a lake shore in Kenya. Their footprints in the mud were frozen in time and lay undiscovered […]
Many Americans are making it clear that they’re cutting ties with family and friends who voted for President-elect Donald Trump—and don’t count them in for this year’s holiday gatherings either. In the days following Nov. 5, videos on social media, especially TikTok, started flooding in, showing people either devastated, angry, or defiantly speaking out about […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An international team of paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean-dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and dolphins. A new paper published today in Royal Society Open Science suggests that thalattosuchians, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs, were stopped from […]
