Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor, was seized by troops in 1532 during the Spanish Conquest, but smallpox had already devastated the Inca Empire around 1524–1528.Credit: Florilegius/Alamy More than 400 years ago, two people living in modern day Chile died while infected with the smallpox virus. Viral DNA found in their mummified remains has now yielded
Billions of years ago, an hours-long Martian sand storm blew so intensely that waves of sand began to climb over each other as they moved across the surface. These layers of sediment eventually hardened into the multi-layered rocks seen in this image, which was taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover on December 12, 2024, the 4,391st
Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during protests against a federal immigration crackdown in the state earlier this year. “Through the cooperation of our federal partners, we have obtained the hard drives of evidence previously withheld in
The suspect wasn’t even sure what model of gun he had used, according to messages with his roommate. “I don’t entirely know what the gun was, because it was old… and Grandpa made some modifications,” he wrote. Twiggs testified that Robinson had asked weeks earlier about using an engraving tool before an upcoming hunting and
PROVO, Utah– Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk plan to call one last witness on Friday as they try to raise questions about the prosecution’s case before it can go to trial. A Utah judge is deciding whether prosecutors have enough evidence to charge Tyler Robinson with aggravated murder. Kirk,
The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has been lying about its ability to search customer chat log data and training data sets for its copyrighted works. It’s the latest escalation in a two-year lawsuit against the AI firm for allegedly violating copyright law by training its generative AI models on