Lifestyle changes and medications found to reduce risk of cognitive disease by about 15% People given intensive help to reduce their high blood pressure such as medication and coaching have a lower risk of dementia, researchers have found. According to the World Health Organization, 57 million people around the world...
Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit
Footage of apes consuming fermented breadfruit leads researchers to ask if it may shed light on origins of human feasting Humans have gathered to feast and enjoy a tipple together for thousands of years, but research suggests chimpanzees may also bond over a boozy treat. Wild chimpanzees in west Africa...
Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks Oxford academics drank from a chalice made from a human skull for decades, a book that explores the violent colonial history of looted human remains has revealed. The skull-cup, fashioned from...
Tornado-producing storm deals deadly weather to Oklahoma and Texas
A slow-moving, active storm system has brought heavy rain, large hail and tornadoes to parts of Texas and Oklahoma and left three people dead
Midwestern city has long been a federal hub. The pain from DOGE’s cuts is everywhere
The Kansas City, Missouri, metropolitan area has long been a regional hub for the federal government, and the pain from the Trump administration's cuts can be seen everywhere
Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana
Florida State classes resume Monday after fatal shooting, but in-person attendance isn’t mandatory
Classes will resume at Florida State University on Monday, four days after a deadly shooting on campus left two people dead and six others injured
Police investigate shooting on subway platform that led to Harvard students sheltering in place
Transit police in Boston are investigating a shooting on a subway platform near Harvard University that prompted the school to issue a shelter-in-place order for students and staff
3 dead after fire sweeps through crowded home in Queens, NY, on Easter
New York fire officials say three people died early Easter Sunday morning in a fire that tore through a crowded Queens home with no evidence of a working smoke detector
Closing arguments set for Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial on charge she conspired to kill husband
Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday afternoon at the Arizona trial for Lori Vallow Daybell