FILE PHOTO: The Emancipation Proclamation is displayed at the National Archives building in Washington, January 13, 2006. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, formally proclaiming the freedom of all slaves held in areas still in revolt. This original document is displayed for public during four…
Image copyright Getty Images A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they…
BECS in spaaaaace! — JPL built Cold Atom Lab to make so-called Bose-Einstein condensates in microgravity. Jennifer Ouellette - Jun 15, 2020 11:44 pm UTC Enlarge / This sequence of false-color images shows the formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the Cold Atom Laboratory prototype at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the temperature gets progressively…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to meet a Chinese delegation at a U.S. military base in Hawaii this week to discuss bilateral ties that have soured deeply since the start of the year, sources familiar with the matter said. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a…
Image copyright Getty Images The US Supreme Court over the past several decades has slowly but steadily expanded its protections of gay rights. From striking down a Texas law that criminalised "sodomy" to legalising gay marriage across the nation, the direction of US jurisprudence seemed clear.That was before Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of several…
What lies beneath — Archaeologists have found a monument, market, temple, bath complex, and water pipes. Jennifer Ouellette - Jun 14, 2020 9:27 pm UTC Enlarge / Ground-penetrating radar map of the temple in the Roman city of Falerii Novi, Italy.L. VerconckFalerii Novi was once a walled town just north of Rome, likely founded around…
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares stumbled on Monday and oil prices slipped as fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections in Beijing sent investors scurrying for safe-havens while underwhelming data from China further weighed on sentiment. FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian wearing a face mask walks near an overpass with an electronic board showing stock…
Image copyright @Keba99 Image caption An outcry followed the murder of Tshegofatso Pule, who was eight months pregnant South Africa's president says it has been a "dark and shameful week" for his country following a surge in violence against women.Cyril Ramaphosa's remarks come after several femicides, including one woman who was eight months pregnant and…
Boy wonder — Film gets titular character completely wrong. Did anyone involved even read the books? Jennifer Ouellette - Jun 13, 2020 9:24 pm UTC Newcomer Ferdia Shaw beat out 1,200 other actors for the title role. Disney Once upon a time, the fairies lived above ground. Disney Human greed drove them underground "to escape…
(Reuters) - Protesters shut down a major highway in Atlanta on Saturday and set fire to a Wendy’s restaurant where a black man was shot by police as he tried to escape arrest, an incident caught on video and sure to fuel more nationwide demonstrations. The unrest broke out after dark in Atlanta, where earlier…
