President Donald Trump has added another endorsement in next year’s Republican primary for Arizona governor
A sequoia forest in Detroit? Plantings to improve air quality and mark Earth Day
Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroit’s eastside by planting giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees
Karen Read’s second murder trial revives debate over who killed her Boston police officer boyfriend
The much-anticipated retrial of Karen Read is set to begin
Who’s who in the criminal trial of a former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime top aide
The former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff are facing a federal criminal trial this week
Is ‘de-extinction’ really possible? – podcast
The American biotech company Colossal Biosciences recently made headlines around the world with claims it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct at the end of the last ice age. But does what the company has done amount to ‘de-extinction’ or should we instead think of these...
Top cancer experts ‘being put off UK by politicians’ messaging on immigration’
Exclusive: Leaked report says high visa costs also derailing clinical trials and research, denying NHS life-saving drugs NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs ‘due to Brexit costs’ Children with cancer cannot wait’: human cost of clinical trial delays The world’s best cancer doctors, scientists and researchers are being put off...
Help to reduce high blood pressure lowers dementia risk, study finds
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