Space 16 September 2020 By Leah Crane BepiColombo is set to pass by Venus in October, where it may help confirm recent potential signs of lifeESA/ATG medialab A spacecraft bound for Mercury may be able to take crucial measurements that could help us confirm potential signs of life seen on Venus. On 14 September, a…
South African Police Service. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) According to police, the 20-year-old student was last seen with her "new boyfriend" on 29 August. The boyfriend reportedly killed himself on 31 August. Meanwhile, police were also searching for a teenager who went missing after being sent home from school after he was involved in a…
Lunamandla Sithonga has been missing since 9 July.The WCED says it received a report indicating there is no record of her arriving at school that day.According to her mother, Lunamandla never stayed away from school.It has been almost two weeks since 12-year-old Lunamandla Sithonga left for school and went missing.Western Cape police spokesperson Sergeant Noloyiso…
A 12-year-old girl from Khayelitsha has been missing for four days.She was last seen by a scholar transport driver when he dropped her off at the gates of the school she attends.Search parties took to the streets of Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha over the weekend.A 12-year-old girl, who disappeared in Cape Town last Thursday, has…
LONDON — Poop doesn’t lie.That’s why scientists are looking at sewers running under the world’s cities and towns for information they hope will help to stem the spread of the coronavirus.Sewers are treasure troves of information, containing genetic material of COVID-19 shed by those with the virus in their fecal matter — even if they…
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same
Can't see the audio player? Listen on: The Host The Trump administration this week missed a deadline to nominate a new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Without a nominee, current acting Director Jay Bhattacharya — who is also the director of the National Institutes of Health — has to give up