Lethal injection contained a chemical never tried before
30 August 2017
Florida conducted an execution last week using the anesthetic chemical etomidate, which has never before been used in a lethal injection
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Online hate victims must speak out if the law is to stop the mob
30 August 2017
In England and Wales, posting online material motivated by hostility or prejudice merits the same sentence as shouting racist abuse, but prosecutions are rare
Our greatest creation: Where maths comes from and what it's for
30 August 2017
Maths helps us comprehend the incredible complexity of the universe, but are we born with the ability to calculate, or did we invent it?
Photos of skinny women affect people’s minds in just 15 minutes
29 August 2017
For the first time, researchers have shown in a randomised trial that looking at pictures of skinny models is enough to change a person’s body ideals
It only takes a few gene tweaks to make a human voice
28 August 2017
Our capacity for complex speech might come from tiny tweaks to existing monkey genes that gave us flatter faces and more refined larynxes
Medieval London was the most violent place in England
27 August 2017
A look at skulls from English cemeteries shows that young lower-class males in Medieval London enforced the rule of law with blows to the head
Mummy autopsy reveals earliest known case of liver parasite
25 August 2017
The mummified remains of a man who died in 1642 had a liver infection caught by eating raw shellfish, perhaps in the hope of curing measles
Eat a seasonal diet and your gut microbes may change in sync
24 August 2017
The types of gut bacteria in Hadza hunter-gatherers vary with the seasons, suggesting that this may also happen in anyone who eats mainly seasonal produce
AI uses bitcoin trail to find and help sex-trafficking victims
24 August 2017
Thousands of escorts advertise on websites like Backpage, not always by choice. Machine learning can now identify ads posted by traffickers, and locate them
Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us
24 August 2017
From Jesus appearing on toast to the man in the moon, we can’t help seeing faces where there are none. Now it turns out monkeys do the same thing
