Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk, allegedly took several sophisticated-sounding steps to thwart detection. Thompson was killed in a highly surveilled urban setting, but his assailant wore a...
Strembryo Until recently, scientists studying the earliest moments of human development relied on embryos donated by people undergoing IVF, which in most countries – including the UK and US – must be destroyed after 14 days. In 2023, however, a...
Drill rig in Nebraska run by Natural Hydrogen Energy LLC, which established its first hydrogen borehole in 2019Viacheslav Zgonnik For more than two years, companies and prospectors around the world have been hunting for underground reserves of natural hydrogen, spurred...
December 13, 20244 min readStorm-Hunting Planes Are Taking on Atmospheric Rivers to Improve ForecastsBetter forecasting would help communities prepare for the extreme weather from atmospheric rivers that causes an average of $1 billion in damages a year on the West...
IN GOUGH’S cave in Cheddar Gorge, south-west England, archaeologists have found the remains of at least six individuals. Many of the bones were intentionally broken and the fragments are covered in cut marks, the result of people using stone tools...
A Red Cross worker spraying chlorine-based disinfectant in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024MOISE KASEREKA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Mpox surged in parts of East, West and Central Africa in 2024, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare...
Exercise has many health benefitsJane Williams/Alamy Getting a good night’s sleep and other healthy habits could slow the biological ageing of your brain, potentially protecting against conditions like dementia. These habits, known as the Life’s Essential 8 checklist, were originally...
For all of humanity’s millennia of staring at the stars and decades of launching probes to explore our universe, only two spacecraft carrying working instruments have ever managed to escape the bubble of space governed by our sun.The twin Voyager...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have...
Many of us do not have to look much farther than our family, circle of friends, or co-workers to know someone who has been touched by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or a neurological disorder such as Alzheimer’s disease. And that...
