Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) After spending three episodes looking to the heavens—first at dark matter, then Mars, then black holes—our intrepid host Paul Sutter now turns his gaze to a more terrestrial topic: Why are we here? And I don’t mean in a Nietzschean sense (and if […]
Enlarge / San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin speaks at a press conference in protest of Mayor London Breed’s plan for more policing and enforcement of laws that could affect drug users in the Tenderloin neighborhood on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | San Francisco Chronicle) The San Francisco Police Department’s crime lab […]
Enlarge (credit: Surapong Thammabuht / EyeEm) Just as the pandemic hit, Christina Islas Lynggaard—a postdoc researcher at the University of Copenhagen’s Globe Institute—sat in her apartment surrounded by vacuums and filters. She tested them, eventually landing on a water vacuum, which was, for her purposes, pretty good. The rest didn’t quite make the cut—they had […]
Investigators in Boulder, Colorado are still actively searching for the killer of JonBenét Ramsey , and as the 25th anniversary associated with her shocking and tragic death comes up this week, they are sharing new updates on the infamous case. According to new info released by police in the city of Boulder, investigators are actively […]
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] We suspected this case would turn out to be worse than it sounded — and it was pretty horrifying already. In case you haven’t been following, Tampa fishermen found human body parts in McKay Bay last month. Police only had a leg and part of a torso at first but were […]
Enlarge / A whole three-banded panther worm from the muscle transgenic line, where the muscle cells are glowing green. (credit: Lorenzo Ricci) In 1961, Osamu Shimomura and Frank Johnson isolated a protein through jellyfish that glow green under UV light. Corals, too, can fluoresce in a wide range of hues, thanks to similar proteins. Now, scientists […]
Last week, we got one of the most important pieces of the puzzle as Gabby Petito‘s autopsy results were revealed. Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue tried to keep it brief during his press conference, focusing on the major headline: the cause of death was listed officially as death by strangulation. Specifically, as we learned […]
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] It’s usually pretty rare in cases like this we have any good news to report, much less when the cases are as old as this one. But after 26 years a rape victim may finally see justice being served. Here’s the amazing true story of how cold case was cracked… In […]
The search for Brian Laundrie continues… just in a different way… Authorities have been on the hunt for Brian since his parents reported him missing on September 17 — long past when the search with regard to his girlfriend , Gabby Petito, concluded with the discovery of her remains in Grand Teton National Park . […]
Enlarge / The left- and right-handed forms of an amino acid. Every living thing uses the left-handed form exclusively. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) The central dogma of molecular biology holds that DNA gets transcribed into RNA, which then gets translated into proteins. Of course, there are exceptions—some viruses, like coronaviruses, forego DNA altogether and encode their […]