The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.

A 1963 protest placard in the Smithsonian collections could almost be mistaken for any of the Black Lives Matter marches of today
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Scientists Found Weed at an Ancient Altar From Biblical Times

A sanctuary called the “Holy of Holies” offers “the earliest evidence for the use of cannabis in the Ancient Near East.” Who was the Kingdom of Judah’s pot dealer?
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There is no such time as '12pm'

An audience member writes that "12pm" does not exist. Are they right? ABC Language researcher Tiger Webb investigates.
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The Remarkable Power of the Prickly Pear

A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be an unusually sustainable biofuel.
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Herd Of Fuzzy Green 'Glacier Mice' Baffles Scientists

Moss balls seem to roll around glaciers in a coordinated way, and researchers can't explain why the whole group moves at about the same speed and in the same direction.
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Hockey Is Not for Everyone | By Akim Aliu

Hockey is not unique. It has the same problems that plague our whole world.
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Antarctica's weird green snow set to spread due to climate change, scientists predict

It's not grass growing along the Antarctic Peninsula. The culprits are a lot smaller.
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The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution

For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country.
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Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink

Snow algae bloom along the coast of Antarctica and are likely to be biogeochemically important. Here, the authors produced the first map of such blooms, show that they are driven by warmer temperatures and proximity to birds and mammals, and are likely to increase given projected climate changes.
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An Intimate Look at Italy’s Saffron Harvest

In the Abruzzo region of Italy, harvesting the lucrative spice is a centuries-old tradition, infused with a deep-seated passion for the land and its history.
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The unsurpassed 125-year-old network that feeds Mumbai

Dabbawalas deliver hundreds of thousands of meals on foot and by bike in one of India's busiest cities every day. The new wave of food-delivery start-ups wants to know how they do it.
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The teenage fanboy who became North Korea’s man in Spain

Spaniard Alejandro Cao de Benós found his calling in socialist North Korea – not least because of a shared ideology – and is keen to clear misconceptions about the health of the hermit kingdom and its supreme leader.
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Ancient DNA reveals staying power of early people of the Andes

Despite cultural upheavals, highlands residents persisted
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Why Right Now Is Exactly the Time for TV Trays

Aka, the case against mindfulness when you’re eating dinner
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Bear the dog saves more than 100 injured koalas

An Australian Koolie dog who was abandoned by his family has been rescued and retrained to detect koalas. Bear has been following the aftermath of Australia's bushfires since January, finding sick, injured or starving koalas that otherwise would have perished. He has now found more than 100.
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Scientists successfully develop 'heat resistant' coral to fight bleaching

The team included researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Melbourne.
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Why American Jazz was first welcomed and later banned in the USSR

Although common Soviet people mostly adored jazz, the country’s leaders didn’t always share such love for it. Generally accepted at first, jazz was soon proclaimed as a symbol of the hated Western world in the USSR.
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Fleas to flu to coronavirus: how 'death ships' spread disease through the ages

Some 1,500 years ago, the Plague of Justinian spread via ships from North Africa to Europe and Asia, killing up to 50 million people.
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This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation

Two hundred years of forced dispossession cannot erase millennia of land ownership and connection to country.
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Where Have All the Briskets Gone?

Texans are about to pay the price for living in the beef state.
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How Much Is a Human Life Actually Worth in Dollars?

As the US economy reopens  amid a deadly pandemic, a dire question looms. Let's weigh the risks—and do the math.
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Inside the heartwarming world of Hot Wheels collecting

What seems like a simple hobby can take you across the world.
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Stone Tools Show How Humans Survived a Supervolcano Eruption 74,000 Years Ago

Of all the volcanic eruptions to shake our planet in the last 2 million years, the Toba super-eruption in Sumatra, Indonesia, was one of the most colossal. But it may not have been the global catastrophe we once thought it was.
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How Australia could harness its tides for energy

Underwater turbines could help ease Australia's dependence on fossil fuels.
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I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be.

The cabin was restless. It was a weekday afternoon in late April, and I was among dozens of people boarding an airplane that most of us had assumed would be empty. Flight attendants were scrambling to accommodate seat-change requests. Travelers—stuffed shoulder to shoulder into two-seat rows—grumbled at one another from behind masks. An ominous announcement came over the in-flight PA system: “We apologize for the alarming amount of passengers on this flight.” Each of us was a potential vector of deadly disease.
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Rats are infecting humans with hepatitis, and nobody knows how

People in Hong Kong are falling ill from a hepatitis virus found in rats -- but nobody knows how they're being infected.
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Confronting the Colonial Legacies of Museum Collections

The Humboldt Forum, a new exhibition venue in Berlin, has raised questions about museum restitution and the importance of researching objects' provenance.
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America’s ‘fried chicken war’

How immigration, ingenuity and the American spirit shaped a US fried chicken “war” that’s been simmering for four generations.
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We Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus

WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.
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Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds

First major study of scheme comes as economic toll of coronavirus prompts fresh interest in idea
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NASA says Antarctica and Greenland lost enough ice to fill Lake Michigan over last 16 years

Antarctica and Greenland lost thousands of gigatons of ice in the last 16 years, according to results
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Three men were buried in Mexico 500 years ago. DNA and bones reveal their stories of enslavement

Born and raised in West Africa, the men survived violence and chronic disease in the Americas
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The World's Most Isolated People

The North Sentinelese tribe is one of the world's most isolated groups of people out there. Their story is intriguing and this article highlights key points.
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