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Professor Brian Cox has warned that humanity could be the sole bearer of meaning across an entire galaxy of 400 billion suns. The physicist and broadcaster, 57, laid out his stark vision during a sit-down with the outlet for its…
Gerald Ledford has apologized to the dead for cutting through their tattoos during autopsies. The Little Rock, Arkansas-based autopsy technician, who shares insights into his profession on TikTok, addressed a question few people consider: what happens to body art once…
A Purdue University research team has begun a new search for Amelia Earhart’s missing plane on a remote Pacific island where they will sleep on a boat to evade giant coconut crabs. The expedition arrived at Nikumaroro Island in the…
River Jones, a Bronx man convicted in the 2022 killing of Los Angeles rapper Avanti Frowner, is suing New York City for $1 million over a shower fall at Rikers Island. Jones, now in his early 20s, filed the petition…
A Brooklyn math teacher is under scrutiny after posting an antisemitic caricature of soccer star Lionel Messi that echoes Nazi-era propaganda. Maysa Jarara, who teaches at Park Slope Collegiate, shared the image July 19 on Facebook under the name Maysa,…
A suspect is in custody after a stabbing inside California’s largest corn maze left two young men hospitalized. The attack unfolded around 9:15 p.m. Friday at Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, where a 28-year-old man from Sacramento allegedly turned a…
Millennium Force at Cedar Point was shut down Friday after a metal bracket broke off a ride car mid-operation. The bracket snapped while the coaster was in motion at the Sandusky, Ohio theme park, a Six Flags Entertainment representative told…
Edimar Martins has vowed to return to Belo Horizonte to find real love after discovering the woman he sold everything to meet never existed. The 49-year-old Brazilian bricklayer liquidated his entire life last week and boarded a bus for a…
Michael D. Barone’s attorney denied his client bit off another man’s ear during a Jersey Shore bar brawl, claiming a height gap made the attack physically improbable. Barone, 35, of Toms River, and John P. Hafner, 34, of Point Pleasant…
A 17-person research team hunting Amelia Earhart’s missing plane has extended its Pacific expedition after El Niño-driven squalls made it too dangerous to reach Nikumaroro Island. The crew, drawn from Purdue University, the Purdue Research Foundation and the Archaeological Legacy…
Carolyn Marvin, 78, was arrested Wednesday for blocking an Uber Eats delivery robot in Philadelphia and now plans to fight the disorderly conduct charge. The retired University of Pennsylvania professor has spent months staging solo protests against autonomous delivery machines,…
A masked cartel assassin has come forward in an Italian television interview to claim he personally burned 250 bodies at a remote Mexican ranch where he says more than 500 people were executed. The self-described hitman, whose face was hidden…
San Diego police released bodycam footage Thursday of a fatal September confrontation inside a North Park sex shop where a suspect armed with a makeshift flamethrower injured three officers and burned a police dog before being shot dead. The video…
Kelly Clarkson, 44, has been publicly clapped back at by a $15 million mechanical bird named Molly. The “Since U Been Gone” singer took to X last week to vent about a shopping trip to Art of Play, a Brooklyn…
A sacked bus driver has lost her disability discrimination and harassment claim after a tribunal ruled her flatulence created a genuine hygiene crisis for a colleague. Stephanie Bryan, from Bristol, was fired from The Big Lemon bus company following a…
Katie Clem, mother of viral meme star Chloe Clem, has opened up about the financial guilt and complicated legacy of her daughter’s decade-old internet fame. The Utah mother said in a new interview that her family was “so poor” when…