...during which he purportedly articulated his intent to engage in sexual activity with the girl despite her disclosure of being 14 years old.

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Cancer DNA robots, also known as DNA nanorobots, are tiny machines made of DNA that can be programmed to target and destroy cancer cells. These robots are constructed using a method called […]

from Great Game India: The State Department started considering the possibility of Chinese repair ships sabotaging undersea cables after SB Submarine Systems, a state-owned Chinese company that fixes underwater cables, withheld information about the location of their ships. A group of Wall Street Journal reporters were briefed by State Department representatives about the growing possibility […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vehemently denounced the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its chief prosecutor, Kareem Khan, issued arrest warrants against him and his Defense Minister. Blasting the ICC’s actions as a “moral [...] The post Netanyahu Slams ICC After Warrants Filed Against Him & Defense Minister Gallant appeared first on The People's Voice.

The current court dress code may be about to get an update following complaints by some barristers who say the wigs they have to wear discriminates against those with Afro-Caribbean hair. Judges are currently looking [...] The post English Courts May Ditch ‘Culturally Insensitive’ Wigs appeared first on The People's Voice.

Thirteen members on the Scottish Green Party have been expelled after they dared to declare that “sex is a biological reality”. Former Scottish Greens co-convener Robin Harper has claimed that the ‘rebel’ group had been [...] The post Members Of Scottish Green Party Expelled for Declaring “Sex Is a Biological Reality” appeared first on The People's Voice.

In 1989 and 1990, a pair of 1-million-year-old skulls belonging to an unknown human species were unearthed in Yunyang District of Hubei province, Central China. A third similar skull was found nearby in 2022, but the mystery didn’t become any less hazy; were they Homo erectus or early Homo sapiens? Might they even be related to the elusive Asian “Dragon Man” lineage?In a new paper – which is yet to be peer-reviewed – scientists have reconstructed one of the skulls and make the juicy claim that the individual may be close to the last common ancestor of H. sapiens and the Dragon Man lineage.Dragon Man, scientifically known as Homo longi, is an extinct species of archaic human that's known from a 146,000-year-old skull found in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, which means Black Dragon River. Some have suggested Dragon Man is the same species as the Denisovans – the elusive extinct “sister species” of human that once lived alongside H. sapiens in Eurasia – although its exact place in the Homo family tree is uncertain. Curiously, it appears that the Dragon Man might also have an intriguing relationship to the three skulls found in Yunyang, known as the “Yunxian Man”.To reach this conclusion, the researchers reconstructed the skull of the Yunxian Man, primarily using the better-preserved specimen (Yunxian 2). They then studied the shape of the rebuilt skull to see how it compared to other members of the Homo family.While the Yunxian skull had a mosaic of features, many aspects of its cranium looked as if it belonged to an early member of the Dragon Man lineage. “The reconstructed Yunxian 2 suggest that it is an early member of the Asian ‘Dragon Man’ lineage, which probably includes the Denisovans, and is the sister group of the Homo sapiens lineage. Both the H. sapiens and Dragon Man lineages had deep roots extending beyond the Middle Pleistocene, and the basal position of the Yunxian fossil cranium suggests it represents a population lying close to the last common ancestor of the two lineages,” the study authors write.At around 940,00 to 1.1 million years old, the Yunxian Man is significantly older than the Dragon Man lineage and H. sapiens. However, its dating does neatly tie in with the theoretical time these two lineages originated around 1.13 million and 930,000 years ago, respectively.Perhaps, therefore, the Yunxian Man is something of a last common ancestor between our species and the so-called Dragon Man of East Asia, the researchers ponder. “It is reasonable to conclude that Yunxian is morphologically and chronologically close to the last common ancestor of the lineages of H. sapiens and Dragon Man,” the study authors explain.The new paper is posted on the pre-print server bioRxiv.

The long-lost head of a Deva statue from the Victory Gate of Angkor Thom has been discovered in a pit at the statue’s feet. Archaeologists from Cambodia’s national heritage authority APSARA unearthed the head in an excavation of the Victory Gate, where the body it was once attached to, the 23rd Deva, still stands guard along with 53 of its colleagues. The head is in comparatively good condition, considering its decapitation and burial. It is only missing its nose and its upper lip. Established by King Jayavarman VII (r. 1181–1218) in the late 12th century, Angkor Thom was the last capital of the Khmer Empire. Jayavarman built 26-foot high walls surrounding the city with a wide moat around the perimeter. The walled city was entered and exited via five monumental gates, one at each of the cardinal directions, plus a fifth one, the Victory Gate, at the northeast. The extra gate was built to accommodate a pre-existing road that connected the Royal Palace to the East Baray (a man-made water reservoir built around 900 A.D.). Visitors to the city crossed a causeway over the moat as they approached the gate. The causeway was flanked on both sides with statues of 54 devas and 54 demons, a reference to a Hindu myth of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk in which the opposing powers — gods and demons — worked together to make amrita, the nectar of life that would grant them immortality. The current excavation at Victory Gate is the assessment phase of a larger restoration project to ensure the long-term stability of Further excavation revealed that the foundations of the balustrades at the Victory Gate are still strong, as they had been repaired during the post-Angkor and French periods. However, stakeholders have suggested additional digging to assess the overall condition of the bridge and the previous repairs before planning future restoration work on the balustrade statues. The discovery of the Deva statue head adds to the rich archaeological heritage of Angkor Thom and provides valuable insights into the history and craftsmanship of the ancient Khmer civilization.

The wealth of grave goods suggests the person buried there was a leader of high status — possibly a Stone Age chieftain.