Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial transactions, funny cat videos and email messages its users hoard. But a new technique developed by University of Washington and Microsoft researchers could shrink the space needed to store digital data that today would fill a Walmart supercenter down to the […]
A 8,500 year old male skeleton discovered in 1996 in Columbia River in Washington State has been the focus of a bitter dispute between Native Americans and American scientists, and even within the American scientific community. Craniometric analysis showed that Kennewick Man, as the skeleton was named, resembled populations in Japan, Polynesia or even Europe, […]
WASHINGTON D.C. — The most obvious effects of too much sun exposure are cosmetic, like wrinkled and rough skin. Some damage, however, goes deeper—ultraviolet light can damage DNA and cause proteins in the body to break down into smaller, sometimes harmful pieces that may also damage DNA, increasing the risk of skin cancer and cataracts. […]
The man accused and who pleaded guilty in the 1993 rape and killing of 92-year-old Grace Mae Odle in Ogden Utah, 40-year-old Stephen Ellenwood, received life in prison for aggravated murder on Tuesday. It was about 2am on May 3, 1993 that Ellenwood climbed through a window at an Ogden retirement home before sexually assaulting […]