A mummy discovered in a vast burial ground of Egypt's pharaohs could change how ancient history is understood

Analysis of the mummy of a nobleman from the Age of the Pyramids suggests that expensive resins and fine linens were used, surprising experts.
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Arctic was a safe haven for nesting birds, but climate change impacts are changing that | CBC News

Research scientist Paul Smith is a lot like the birds he studies; every spring when the ice recedes, he migrates north to the Arctic. But while he's been able to adapt to the changing climate, the nesting birds have not been so lucky in the face of new threats.
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Where Facts Were No Match for Fear

Civic boosters in central Montana hoped for some federal money to promote tourism. A disinformation campaign got in the way.
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China is removing domes from mosques as part of a push to make them more 'Chinese'

China is removing domes and minarets from thousands of mosques. Authorities are taking down overtly Islamic architecture as part of a "sinicization" push to make them seem more traditionally Chinese.
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Israel Just Took One Step Closer to Making Compact Wingless 'Flying Cars' Real

While other VTOL companies toy with battery-based flight, an Israeli company has high hopes on Hydrogen fuel to power its flying taxis.
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Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past

The long read: Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own
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Amazon copied products and rigged search results, documents show

A trove of Amazon documents reveals how the company ran a campaign in India of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own products.
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‘Killed like animals’: documents reveal how Australia turned a blind eye to a West Papuan massacre

Dozens of West Papuans were tortured and thrown into the sea 23 years ago. Days later, Australia knew details of the attack, yet remained silent
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Why the Huntington Beach oil spill is so harmful to wildlife

A ruptured pipeline spewed crude oil into the Pacific Ocean, and it may foul ecosystems for years to come.
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The Success of ‘Squid Game’ Should Come as a Surprise to No One

To those riding the Korean Wave, it was only a matter of time for a TV show to break through like “Squid Game” did.
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How Iranians came to deal drugs in Japan

In Japan’s underworld of organised crime, there is of course the infamous Yakuza, but there are also foreign nationals, including Iranians. For more than two decades now, they have been dealing drugs…
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Loved to death: Australian sandalwood is facing extinction in the wild

Wild sandalwood populations in Australia have been slowly collapsing for decades. New research found the Western Australian government has been warned repeatedly for a century.
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Russia is building its own kind of sovereign internet — with help from Apple and Google

Russia’s latest actions have worrying implications for democratic opposition movements.
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Why Japanese Games Are Increasingly Releasing at the Same Time Across The Globe - IGN

Japanese publishers and developers are increasingly pushing for worldwide releases of games, and while there are plenty of upsides to this method, some key challenges are still a major factor in the process.
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Yemen's ancient, soaring skyscraper cities

Constructed using natural materials, Yemeni high-rises are superbly sustainable and perfectly suited to the hot and dry Arabian desert climate.
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Venezuela introduces new currency, drops six zeros

Venezuela has for years seen some of the world’s worst inflation, complicating cash transactions amid economic crisis.
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Cocktail of pesticides in almost all oranges and grapes, UK study finds

Traces of 122 different pesticides in 12 most polluted fruit and veg products, many with links to cancer
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China’s population could halve within 45 years, new study warns

Researchers say previous estimates may have severely underestimated the pace of demographic decline.
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China PCR test orders soared before first reported COVID case

Government contracts show surges in Wuhan-area purchases starting May 2019
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Roe v. Wade is in the Supreme Court's crosshairs

The court is likely to exacerbate America's already existing fault lines.
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Squid Game is a brutal show about social inequalities — and it's Netflix's next major hit

Netflix has recently announced that South Korean dystopian horror series Squid Game -— famed for its brutal violence — could be its biggest release ever. CBC News spoke with two culture experts to understand its themes and origins.
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Indigenous knowledge and the persistence of the 'wilderness' myth

Aboriginal people view so-called wilderness as sick, neglected land. This runs counter to the view of wilderness as pristine and healthy, which underpins non-Indigenous conservation efforts.
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