Saul Kassin has studied interrogations by observing them and simulating them in the lab. DREW GURIAN At 16, Huwe Burton confessed to killing his mother. He was still in shock from discovering her body when New York City police began to interrogate him. After 3 hours of being threatened and […]
Many victims of school bullying suffer mental illness later in life. from shutterstock.com The Victorian state government was recently reported to be investigating whether it could make it easier for bullying victims to sue schools. This was prompted by the case of a 13-year-old boy who had to undergo surgery after being […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane into orbit from NASA’s Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sept. 7, 2017 (Image: © SpaceX) WASHINGTON — A lawsuit filed May 17 by SpaceX against the U.S. government was made public […]
Both the US and Australia are restricting the activities of Chinese telco Huawei. Roman Pilipey / AAP The United States and Australia are deliberately restricting the place of Chinese telco Huawei in their telecommunications landscapes. We’re told these changes will be worth it from a security point of view. Read […]
Students hold up placards during an environmental protest in Melbourne on May 3, 2019 A tiny finch flew into the centre of Australia’s bitter environmental politics Friday when local authorities blocked the construction of a contentious coal mine until the rare bird is protected. The Indian-backed Adani mine in the […]
A pilot project to test the DNA of migrant families at the US-Mexico border raises concerns about the rise of a genetic surveillance state. MARK RALSTON/GETTY IMAGES STARTING AS SOON as next week, the Department of Homeland Security will begin piloting a DNA testing program at the US-Mexico border intended to expose immigrants […]
The laws governing DNA data in the US are patchy and incomplete, which means that genetic anonymity is almost never guaranteed. ANTON NOVODEREZHKIN/TASS/GETTY IMAGES TWENTY YEARS AGO, you had about a one in six billion chance of knowing someone who’d had their DNA sequenced. Today, almost every American can name someone […]
After two weeks of deliberations, a criminal court in Puyo, Ecuador, accepted a Waorani tribe bid for court protection in Pastaza province to stop an oil bidding process Ecuador’s Waorani indigenous tribe won their first victory Friday against big oil companies in a ruling that blocks the companies’ entry onto […]
Threatened: Lemurs in Madagascar’s Vohibola forest are in danger of being wiped out by poaching and logging Under a leaden sky, six rangers walk silently in single file through Vohibola, one of the last primary forests in eastern Madagascar. Alert to the slightest movement and sound, Michael Tovolahy’s patrol is […]
In this July 28, 2014, file photo, lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam that impounds Colorado River water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, signed a plan to cut back on the use of water from the […]