Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts — genetically engineering living animals with qualities to resemble extinct species like the woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths roamed the frozen tundras of Europe, Asia and North America until they went…
An American pilot killed in World War II has been accounted for 80 years after his bomber — dubbed “Heaven Can Wait” — crashed off the coast of New Guinea, U.S. officials revealed Monday. U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson, 24, of Wichita, Kansas, was officially accounted for on Sept. 25, 2024,…
A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder he long denied committing declared the day “Freedom Friday” and said he was eager to visit his mother after a judge ordered him released because of new DNA evidence. There were gasps and cries in the courtroom when Judge Kirstin Hamman said, “And…
An Idaho judge declined to throw out key evidence against the man charged with murder in connection with the killings of four University of Idaho students, saying Wednesday that the genetic investigation process that it hinges on was not unconstitutional. Judge Steven Hippler was not swayed by legal arguments made by Bryan Kohberger’s defense team…
Two Native Hawaiian brothers who were convicted in the 1991 killing of a woman visiting Hawaii allege in a federal lawsuit that local police framed them “under immense pressure to solve the high-profile murder” then botched an investigation last year that would have revealed the real killer using advancements in DNA technology. Albert “Ian” Schweitzer,…
New DNA technology allows investigator better chance at solving decades old cold cases New DNA technology allows investigator better chance at solving decades old cold cases 02:47 Police have arrested a suspect in the unsolved murder of a Honolulu teenager, whose death rocked the high school where her body was discovered almost five decades ago….
You may be familiar with a range of tips for living a healthy life: watch your weight, exercise, eat nutritious food and do not smoke, for example. What if you could combine these lifestyle factors with a host of other variables to learn your risk of developing specific diseases, to help catch and treat them…
A Malaysian ex-university professor in Hong Kong accused of murdering his wife and daughter has rejected prosecutors’ claims that an animal experiment he was carrying out with carbon monoxide was merely a ruse to obtain the deadly gas that killed them nine years ago via a yoga ball. Anesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun, 60, made the…
In the remote village of Liqian, nestled in northwestern China’s Gansu province, a captivating myth once captured global attention and sparked an intriguing question: are the local people descendants of a lost Roman legion? In the 1990s, the presence of Romanesque architecture and the villagers’ European traits – evident in their facial features – fuelled…
A man in China who went through many hardships to reunite with his family 34 years after he was abducted has announced a tragic rupture with them one year after the reunion. Yu Baobao, 37, said on his social media account, which has 326,000 followers, that he had severed ties with his birth family because…