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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails An Oakland, California, police officer was shot and killed Friday while answering a report of a burglary at a marijuana dispensary, authorities said. Tuan Le, 36, was one … Read more
They’d been in the collections of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) since the 1870s when they were first discovered. Nestled in among the largest collection of trilobites, the unique fossils rested in drawers until 145 years later when Sarah Losso, PhD candidate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) at Harvard, … Read more
Fig. 1. (A) Location of the city where the study area is located within the province; (B) location of the study site in the city; (C) the orthomosaic image acquired on 2022 August 12 and actual CCO flight paths for 90 plots. Credit: TranSpread Grasping the complex interplay between light and plant canopies is crucial … Read more
(NewsNation) — Actor and comedian Michael Ian Black is praising whistleblower David Grusch for his “earth-shattering” claims the government is covering up a UFO retrieval program. “What’s remarkable about Grusch is he is one of the senior-most people in the intelligence community to ever make these kinds of claims,” Black said during an interview with NewsNation’s … Read more
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has again vetoed legislation that would have changed the state’s wrongful death statute by letting families recover damages for emotional suffering from the … Read more
Finding and describing new species can be a tricky endeavor. Scientists typically look for distinctive characters that can differentiate one species from another. However, variation is a continuum that is not always easy to quantify. At one extreme, multiple species can look alike even though they are different species — these are known as cryptic … Read more
Credit: Junior Libby/public domain Angelenos hoping to cozy up by the fireplace this week should make other plans. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has extended a no-burn order for much of Southern California through Thursday amid poor air quality. The agency chalks up the bad air to—coincidentally— residents enjoying holiday fires as well … Read more
As a writer, my focus has been on one of the biggest mysteries in all of history: what are the origins of patriarchy in human society? I should have known that the journey to answer that question would for ever change the way I thought about myself. What I did know was that researching it … Read more
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A second trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on charges not in the cryptocurrency fraud case presented to a jury that convicted him in November is not necessary, … Read more
Researchers have identified a previously unrecognized class of antibodies — immune system proteins that protect against disease — that appear capable of neutralizing multiple forms of flu virus. These findings, which could contribute to development of more broadly protective flu vaccines, will publish December 21 by Holly Simmons of the University of Pittsburgh School of … Read more
