Sibusiso Sandile Langa has been charged for allegedly killing the men who were found in a room with gunshot wounds to their heads.The victims were aged between 21 and 36.The police say they cannot rule out the possibility of more arrests. A 23-year-old man arrested for a bloodbath that left seven people dead in eMsahweni, Durban,…
By Michael Marshall Archaeologists used remote sensing to build a 3D image of the site of Aguada Fénix in Tabasco state, MexicoTakeshi Inomata The oldest and largest known monument built by the Mayan civilisation has been found in Mexico. Called Aguada Fénix, it is a huge raised platform 1.4 kilometres long. Aguada Fénix was built…
From the land down under — People may have used beeswax to shape the miniature stencils. Kiona N. Smith - Jun 2, 2020 6:46 pm UTC Brady et al. 2020 Ancient artists used several techniques to paint images on rock. Sometimes they drew by hand, but other times they would place an object like a…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A newly published study suggests that bats have indeed been the originator of SARS-CoV-2, after researchers found a novel coronavirus in the flying mammals that is “the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 reported to date.”The research notes the coronavirus known as…
By Leah Crane The Wolfe Disk is a surprisingly smooth galaxyNRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello A galaxy from the early universe has been found to be far smoother than expected, which is evidence for a speedy sort of galaxy formation never spotted before. And it could mean that galaxies like the Milky Way may have started taking…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have