We round up this year’s winners at awards for achievements that ‘first make people laugh and then make them think’ It’s that time of year again: a select group of scientists have been summoned to a ceremony to receive coveted prizes, be showered in paper planes, and leave with a...
‘They’ll be finding bodies next year’: a renowned forensic scientist on Nepal’s ‘extreme challenges’
Prof Richard Bassed helped identify Boxing Day tsunami and victims of Australia’s catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires. ‘The randomness of this massive flood,’ he says. ‘That gets to you’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The bodies of some of those killed in the Nepal-Tibet flood...
Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers want to put off accuser’s recantation hearing
Lawyers for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky are asking to cancel a hearing that was scheduled to hear a claim that an accuser wants to recant allegations that Sandusky sexually abused him years ago
Trump names Adam Telle as acting Army secretary following the departure of Driscoll
President Donald Trump has named Adam Telle as the acting Army secretary following the departure of Dan Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Teen and his mother charged in stabbing death of his girlfriend
Police in Pennsylvania say a teenager is charged in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend
Flock surveillance cameras become midterm campaign target as voters balk at tech companies’ power
Across the country and up and down the ballot, candidates from both parties are increasingly on the attack over Flock cameras
A single juror may prevent a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial as deliberations resume
A deadlocked jury is scheduled to return for a seventh day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial
There’s a quick way to slow climate change. Why isn’t everyone doing it? – video
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps more than 80 times as much heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and causes 25% of global heating today. We definitely don’t want this gas spewing needlessly into the atmosphere, but in 2023 that’s exactly what environment editor Damian Carrington...
Immigrant rights group seeks to block use of federal databases it says could purge legal voters
An immigrant rights group has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to block the Department of Homeland Security from using federal databases that the group alleges are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to register t...
Chicago River bridge gets stuck after lifting for boat to pass
A major bridge over the Chicago River got stuck for more than four hours Wednesday after it lifted up to allow a boat to pass, snarling traffic in Chicago's downtown