Australian police are investigating whether they have found the remains of missing British backpacker Peter Falconio near the place where he was last seen. Detectives have recovered bone fragments near Alice Springs, near where Mr Falconio was shot in 2001. The fragments were recovered from the area in Australia’s Northern Territory where local police believe […]
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In a video ad Google posted on Twitter, its yet-to-be-launched AI chatboard Bard confidently spouted misinformation about the James Webb Space Telescope. “JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system,” the chatbot replied, which is patently false. (It was the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope that captured […]
The UK and US should pay full reparations to Chagos Islanders who have been forcibly displaced, Human Rights Watch has said, warning that the forced exile of residents in the 1960s and 1970s amounted to a crime against humanity. The campaign group claimed, in a report published on Wednesday, that the islanders had suffered decades […]
New laws to tackle the small boats crisis must override the Human Rights Act and decisions by European judges, legal experts have said. Think-tank Policy Exchange said legislation must go further than appearing “to address the Channel crisis” and Home Secretary Suella Braverman should be “required” to remove illegal arrivals. They say a new law […]
Archaeologists have revealed what could be the oldest stone tools ever found, and they think someone other than our closest Homo ancestors may have made them. Unearthed in 2016 at Nyayanga, Kenya, on the banks of Lake Victoria, the ancient implements fit with the design of the Oldowan toolkit, the name given to the earliest […]
Little blobs of human brain tissue transplanted into rats have just passed a major milestone in the pathway towards a new way to heal serious brain injuries. The grafted human mini-brains didn’t just integrate with the surrounding rat brain tissue – the neurons in the organoids started to respond to visual stimuli: black-and-white images and […]
White-tailed deer — the most abundant large mammal in North America — have been found harbouring old Covid variants that are no longer seen in human circulation. It is estimated that there are some 30 million white-tailed deer across the United States. The animals became infected with coronavirus during the pandemic thanks to ongoing contact […]
Source: ISTOCK As you can imagine, we use a lot of water in our day-to-day lives. We use water when we wash the dishes, do the laundry, take a shower — the list goes on. But what human activity uses the most water worldwide? The answer might not occur to you right away, but once […]
Throwing a funeral that leaves Earth a bit better off, maybe Climate Advice Columnist January 31, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EST (Illustration by Emily Sabens/The Washington Post; iStock) Comment on this story Comment I’m standing at the summit of Fernwood Cemetery just outside San Francisco. Live oaks sprout from the hills like leafy castles. A […]
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Ukraine to investigate its military’s alleged use of landmines near the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum. The non-profit human rights group said it has documented several cases in which the Ukrainian military fired rockets carrying antipersonnel mines in and around Izyum while it was occupied by Russian forces. “Ukrainian forces […]