Since 2011, the patient known as RFS has only been able to see wavy lines when looking at the digits 2 through 9. Photo: Johns Hopkins UniversityA man’s baffling inability to see certain numerical digits might provide insight into how our brains work. According to the scientists who have studied him, the nature of his…
What will be really telling is what we see after Memorial Day is over and reporting picks back up. ATLANTA — 11Alive is committed to helping make sure you have the most up to date information concerning COVID-19. That includes working to make sense of Georgia's complicated data. So we’re helping put the numbers in…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks at a White House coronavirus press briefing in April. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks at a White House coronavirus press briefing in April. Alex Brandon/AP The worst of the nation's historic job losses are yet to come, according to Treasury Secretary Steven…
DETROIT — Skylar Herbert loved dressing up and performing. She adored going to kindergarten. She started reading at age 4. She liked "girly things" and bling.“She could take over a room,” her grandmother Leona Pannell Herbert said.About a month ago, Skylar started to complain of headaches. Within days, she was hospitalized in the Detroit suburbs,…
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. tally of coronavirus cases and deaths could soon jump because federal health officials will now count illnesses that are not confirmed by lab testing.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told states Tuesday to include probable COVID-19 cases in their reports to the agency. Previously, most states reported only…
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…