Humanity's homeland found in ancient Botswana

Humanity's homeland found in ancient Botswana
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This Alaska mine could generate $1 billion a year. Is it worth the risk to salmon?

A giant open-pit copper and gold dig above Alaska's Bristol Bay could yield sales of more than $20 billion in two decades, but Pebble Mine would place the world's greatest wild salmon run at risk forever.
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An Advocate For Kazakhs Persecuted In China Is Banned From Activism In Kazakhstan

Serikjan Bilash signed a plea deal after Kazakh officials charged him with "inciting ethnic tensions" for his work documenting repression against Kazakhs and in China's Xinjiang region.
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Video games in China: beyond the great firewall

On the ground in the vast world of Chinese gaming.
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Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone

China’s use of technology for social control of its citizens is extensive – but it could affect users elsewhere too, says security analyst Samantha Hoffman
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Smartphones continue to change North Korean society

Smartphones are driving major changes in North Korean lifestyles, several Daily NK sources in Pyongyang recently reported. 
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Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point'

Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021
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'Mozart would have made video game music': composer Eímear Noone on a winning art form

Eímear Noone got into composing and conducting video game music by accident. One day, while studying music at Trinity College Dublin, a fourth-year student came to the bar she was drinking in with members of the college chapel choir and offered them a few quid to help with the orchestration on a project of his.
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50,000-year-old, tar-smeared tool shows Neanderthal smarts

Rare, submerged tool suggests Neanderthals had mastered the complex technology of tarmaking
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Ancient Middle Eastern Astrologers Recorded the Oldest-Known Evidence of Auroras

Scientists have discovered what may be the oldest written records of auroras to date. They were hidden in ancient cuneiform tablets from the Middle East.
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Every Literary Movement in History, Summed Up in a Single Sentence

The problem with literature is that there's so much of it. Books go back a long time (like at least ten or fifteen years, I'm thinking), and if you're a student taking an English class, you're supposed to be familiar with basically all of them. But that's impossible. Allow us, then, to suggest an alternate strategy: you fake it. The following literary movements and periods span whole centuries, numerous cultural milestones, and multiple historical turning points, but we have taken the liberty of reducing them all to a single sentence. This should be more than sufficient to convince your teacher you actually did the reading. So, without...
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She Traveled to Every Country on Earth. Here's What She Learned.

On October 6, Nabongo became the first documented black woman and first Ugandan to travel to every sovereign nation. Here’s what she learned along the way.
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The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source — until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.
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China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother

Facebook’s Libra project led Beijing to accelerate its efforts. The government could soon know a lot more about how people are spending.
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Are These the World's First Baby Bottles?

Animal milk sustained infants 5,000 years ago—just as it does in many parts of the world today.
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The NYPD Is Requesting Rappers Be Removed From Shows. What’s Next?

The NYPD sent a letter asking for five New York rappers to be removed from Rolling Loud, and those artists might be missing future shows. Is it legal?
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Are China's Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?

China is supposed to be savvy. So why is it throwing a fit about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?
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Why white married women are more likely to vote for conservative parties

Women are swinging elections in the US and Australia in ways analysts have struggled to predict. Two recent studies can help explain.
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Hollywood Should Follow 'South Park' and Stand Up to Tyrants

The entertainment industry has a duty not only to stand behind Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but to follow their lead, writes Hollywood Reporter executive editor Stephen Galloway.
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Indonesia's Ancient 'Hobbits' May Have Evolved Really, Really Quickly

Another example of how, biologically, islands are deeply weird.
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Pesticides Linked to Deaths of Millions of Bees in Brazil

Pesticides Linked to Deaths of Millions of Bees in Brazil
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Chinese app on Xi’s ideology allows data access to users’ phones, report says.

The propaganda app — mandatory in some workplaces — can give the Communist Party a powerful new surveillance tool. 
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Selling Books in London from a 100-Year-Old Dutch Barge

Word on the Water, a floating bookstore on a 1920s Dutch barge, was founded in 2011 by Paddy Screech and Jon Privett. It is currently moored in Regents Canal in King’s Cross, London. * What’s…
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How Australia's smallest state wound up in the middle of America's biggest drug crisis

Australia's island state is known for its rich history and pristine environment — it also plays a huge part of supplying the raw materials that make the painkillers at the centre of the United States' opioid crisis.
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First signs found of humans conserving food

Early humans living 200,000-420,000 years ago were previously not thought capable of such planning.
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Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost

We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us.
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Tech Companies Didn’t Plan for Chinese Censorship

Tech companies are censoring information about the demonstrations in Hong Kong. Civil liberties experts say this is symptomatic of larger problems.
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How Apple, Google and Blizzard Are Silencing Hong Kong Protesters

The tech world reacts
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Everything you need to know about visiting Hong Kong right now

The definitive guide to travelling to Hong Kong during the protests
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9 Drinks That Only People Who Grew Up In The '70s Will Understand

Somehow, during the 1970s, people were able to drink a bunch of heavy cream-laced cocktails, put on tight pants, and go dancing.
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Chinese firms are taking a different route to driverless cars

The path to a world of self-driving remains long and winding
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As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, Turkey may be sinking deeper in the Syrian conflict.
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100 Years Later, Antarctic Explorers' Huts Look Frozen in Time

Whiskey and all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers have been restored to look as they did during the first treks to the continent in the early 1900s.
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Mexico will legalise cannabis this month

Cannabis will be given full legalisation in Mexico before the end of this month, leaders of the south American nation's government have promised.
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Hidden upside-down 'rivers' eroding Antarctic ice shelves

‘Warm water circulation is attacking undersides of ice shelves at their most vulnerable points’
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They fought alongside the US for five years to be bombed by US NATO ally

Like thieves in the night US forces withdrew from their positions, without explanation, processes, discussions, or leaving behind people to monitor the area.
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Doxxing has become a powerful weapon in the Hong Kong protests

Having your private information leaked for political reasons may become the new normal
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California’s climate dystopia comes true

"Out go the lights."
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Human culture and cognition evolved through the emotions

Universal emotions are the deep engine of human consciousness and the basis of our profound affinity with other animals
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Chile’s attempts to move up the lithium value chain are not working

One problem is the country’s distance from manufacturing centres
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We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon

When China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft landed on the lunar far side on 3 January 2019, it made history. It was the first spacecraft to visit that part of the Moon, and among its payload was a 2.6 kg (5.7 lb) mini-biosphere called the Lunar Micro Ecosystem
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Archaeologists discover ancient 'cosmopolitan' city in Israel

The remains of a 5,000-year-old city are discovered in Israel, with archaeologists saying the immense urban construction drastically changes their understanding of the period.
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'Once they're gone, they're gone': the fight to save the giant sequoia

Few living beings have experienced as much as the giant sequoias. With ancestors dating back to the Jurassic era, some of the trees that now grow along California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains been alive for thousands of years, bearing witness to most of human history – from the fall of the Roman empire to the rise of Beyoncé.
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Scientists have found a new Aussie pterosaur and it's terrifying

Australian researchers have found a new species of pterosaur in outback Queensland.
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China's fake meat trend is on the rise, researchers say

China's demand for "mock meat" is growing amid concerns that domestic supply won't be enough to meet demand, according to Fitch Solutions.
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What's at stake in Trump's war on Huawei: control of the global computer-chip industry

US actions do more than just keep Huawei away from critical infrastructure. They choke off the supply of semiconductors to China.
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China's military might is much closer to the US than you probably think

China’s military budget is usually thought to be about 40% of that of the US. In reality it's about 75%.
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North Korea Can’t Hide Its Population Problem

Isolation might protect the “hermit kingdom” for now, but its demographic destiny cannot be avoided.
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