If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Eight days before my 33rd birthday in April, a social worker at a crisis clinic near Denver determined I was an imminent danger to myself. She placed me on an
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…
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that