TrilobitesHumans and other species have a gene mutation that lets them digest alcohol. In other species, it’s missing.Look at these lightweights at the Elephant Conservation Center in Laos.Credit...Oleksandr Rupeta/AlamyMay 20, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETHumans are not the only animals that get drunk. Birds that gorge on fermented berries and sap are known to fall out…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…