News Briefs from around the World: November 2022
BULGARIA Scientists determined that two teeth, left uncatalogued in a museum for decades, belong to a long-extinct European panda. The beast likely lived in a swampy forest, a radically different…
How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence
A week and a half before the midterm elections, a man broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house, screaming “Where’s Nancy?” and attacked her husband with a hammer. David DePape, charged…
Tutankhamun’s Secrets review: Lively TV documentary spills more beans
A pacy documentary reveals the latest about Tutankhamun and Howard Carter, who discovered his tomb. It also revives vivid childhood memories of my first encounter with the pharaoh, says Bethan…
Planets around graveyard star were consumed before Earth was even born
A strangely cool star that has been dead for more than 10 billion years contains levels of some elements that indicate it ate its own planets Space 5 November 2022…
Drought, not lithium mining, is drying out Chile’s largest salt flat
Lithium mining has been blamed for the drying out of a region in the Andes where the metal is naturally found – but drought may be the culprit instead Environment…
What US midterm elections mean for climate policy and public health
By James Dinneen A couple arrives to vote at the Anthem Center in Henderson, Nevada, during early voting on 24 October 2022 Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images On…
King Tut Mysteries Endure 100 Years After Discovery
It is one of the most iconic discoveries in all of archaeology—the treasure-filled tomb of the young Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, better known as King Tut. One hundred years ago today…
NASA Asteroid Threat Practice Drill Shows We’re Not Ready
On August 16, 2022 an approximately 70-meter asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere. At 2:02:10 P.M. EDT, the space rock exploded eight miles over Winston-Salem, N.C., with the energy of 10 megatons…
Immersive Tutankhamun exhibition reveals the grandeur of his treasures
Beyond King Tut, curated by the National Geographic Society, surrounds visitors with large-scale projections and animations of some of the thousands of artefacts unearthed from the boy king’s tomb Humans…
Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World is an engaging update
The story of Tutankhamun and his tomb still amazes us. Palaeopathologist Bob Brier’s new book is an accessible guide to the story, but doesn’t break new ground Humans 2 November…