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YAOUNDE – The security forces in Cameroon have been guilty of torture against people suspected of ties with the islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. Amnesty International, that Thursday, the report, states that several prisoners between 2013 and 2017 as a result died. The torture, including waterboarding, was according to the human rights organization take place…

At least three quarters of the human genome consists of non-functional “junk DNA”, say the results of recent research scientists. With the discovery by Watson and Crick of the DNA double helix in 1953 among the scientific community there is debate on what part of the genome is what makes you you. And according to…

Image: Twitter It’s hot in Japan. Hot enough to melt a dashboard rubber duck into a forlorn pool of gooey plastic. And hot enough to make thousands of people intent on proving or disproving the authenticity of a now-viral tweet. The initial tweet, posted yesterday and already garnering close to 500,000 retweets, depicts a small…

Image Courtesy of Austin Adair In a parallel universe, there’s a planet where it rains only Italian cured meats. It appears that somehow, a wormhole has ripped through the space-time continuum and connected that world to ours, as evidenced by an assemblage of Italian sausage recently found on a family’s roof in Deerfield Beach, Florida.…

Image: AP The Indian government spent seven years compiling a national database that includes citizens’ iris scans, fingerprints, addresses, and phone numbers—and now Airbnb, Uber, and India ride-hailing service Ola are all interested in incorporating the system into their services, according to a report from BuzzFeed News. The national ID database, Aadhar, contains information on…

Image: The Chemo III project, BOEM and NOAA OER Things just don’t seem to die in the deep ocean (well, except for humans). While rockfish around 100 feet below the surface live about 12 years, those living closer to 2500 feet down can live for 200 years. There’s a deep water coral that can apparently…

WhatsApp Becomes the Latest Victim of China's New Wave of Internet Censorship Facebook is desperate to do business in China, but authorities in the country are increasingly… Read more Back in 2014, European courts ruled that Google had to respect the “right to be forgotten,” a set of guidelines that allow citizens to request the…

Photo: AP Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose prior plan for stellar colonization involved sending people who are not Elon Musk to go die on Mars, thinks this noble endeavor will require a practice round of sending people to die on the Moon first. “Before we get the public real fired up, I think we gotta…

Photo: Getty The Federal Communications Commission intends to keep secret more than 200 pages of documents related to an alleged cyberattack that the agency says impaired its systems two months ago. The agency claims that it was bombarded in early May with traffic originating from a cloud service, which caused its website to crash temporarily…