Darren McKinney, the field operations director of lowernine.org, takes a break during a shift repairing a neighbor’s home in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward on 20 August 2025. Darren McKinney grew up in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. When Hurricane Katrina struck 20 years ago this week, he watched his neighborhood wash away. From his second floor apartment, he saw …
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Fan Wang BBC News, in Singapore STR/AFP via Getty Images Nanjing massacre was the darkest chapter of the years-long Sino-Japanese war Japanese vlogger Hayato Kato’s 1.9 million followers are used to his funny clips about exploring China, where he has been living for several years. But on 26 July he surprised them with a sombre one. “I just watched a …
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In July 1978, a quiet corner of the Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom became the setting for a biological first. Researchers and zoo staff documented the birth of Motty, the only confirmed hybrid between an African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and an Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). According to the Guinness World Records, no other case has been verified in the …
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When Margaret Brown moved to Austin in 1996, she was greeted by the smiling faces of four young girls, peering down at her from faded billboards all over town. Highlighted in a shock of red, just underneath their black and white portraits was the question, “WHO KILLED THESE GIRLS?” In December of 1991, nude the bodies of Eliza Thomas, 17, …
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In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an eerie, auditory experience. Now a team containing some of those same scientists has sonified an even earlier flip, from epochs ago. The resulting cacophony is an unnerving translation of geological data on the Matuyama-Brunhes reversal, a switching of the planet’s magnetic …
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It’s the stuff of nightmares. Fully conscious, aware of everything and everyone yet unable to move, communicate, or even breathe unassisted. Some call it ‘locked in syndrome.’ Mallory Wilkerson refers to it as a ‘waking coma’, and it was her horrifying reality for three agonizing months back in the fall of 2024. That was when, within the space of 24 …
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