In mid-June, a fingerprint began to undergo analysis at the Department of Public Safety’s Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. Unlike most prints found in the lab, this print is not related to any crime, and it is found in the lobby for all to see. The suspension sculpture, called My Left Thumb, was donated by local […]
President Donald Trump and Congress face a key moment Monday in the political fight over Republican efforts to repeal and replace the national health care reforms championed by former President Barack Obama. The Congressional Budget Office, a group of nonpartisan budget analysts and economists, is expected to release its assessment of how many Americans would […]
The original Americans came from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, and apparently hung out in the north – perhaps for thousands of years – before spreading in two distinct populations throughout North and South America, according to a new genomic analysis. […]
Near real-time analysis of the April 1 earthquake in Iquique, Chile, showed that the 8.2 event occurred in a gap on the fault unruptured since 1877 and that the April event was not what the scientists had expected, according to an international team of geologists. “We assumed that the area of the 1877 earthquake would […]