The oldest known plague outbreak struck hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago
Plague DNA in ancient graves near Siberia’s Lake Baikal suggests the disease threatened people long before farming and crowded settlements.
How real is the Cyclops in ‘The Odyssey’?
The iconic one-eyed monster coming to movie screens in July in The Odyssey might have more in common with tiny water critters than with humans.
Anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist finishes dead last in 3-way GOP state senate primary
Rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R) lost his re-election bid yesterday as he came in dead last in a three-way Republican
‘Game-changing’ cancer service approved for rollout
More cancer patients could receive genetic testing thanks to a new technique pioneered in Cambridge.
Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy
The Food and Drug Administration this week cleared a second carcass-feasting fly species for use in maggot wound therapy, according to an announcement from Cuprina
Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful
The Ring and Lilo & Stitch actress Daveigh Chase dies aged 35
Chase died from sepsis following a bout with meningitis in a Los Angeles hospital, her longtime manager told the BBC.
Japan ramping up defence is ‘critical’ to prevent war, Defence Minister Koizumi tells BBC
Japan needs to revisit the pacifist posture that has defined it since World War Two, Shinjiro Koizumi says.
UN experts demand Iranians free Foremans
They said proceedings against Lindsay and Craig Foreman had been marked by grave irregularities.
Trump says he will visit India as frosty relationship with Modi thaws
Trump made the announcement during chat where he also vowed to protect India.
‘Dumbest man in the Senate’ torched online for stunning act of self-sabotage
A GOP senator is being torched online after he tried to reassure people that the Trump administration knows what it’s doing. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
MAGA senator clowned for parroting one of Trump’s most baffling lines
A MAGA senator was walloped online after he parroted a head-spinning Trump defense of his dubious Iran deal. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) was asked by
The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.
The Trump Mobile T1 is here, and it is not what was promised. When Tweety McTreason’s eldest sons unveiled it at Trump Tower a year
A Colombian AI startup wants to assist half of Latin America’s doctors. Andreessen Horowitz just backed it.
Telepatia, an AI clinical assistant built for Latin American healthcare, has raised $33 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company wants