Aboriginal leader Arthur Manuel, who died Wednesday, was a fearless advocate for British Columbia’s indigenous peoples, colleagues said Thursday. In a statement, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs said: “Arthur Manuel was, without question, one of Canada’s strongest and most outspoken Indigenous Leaders in the defence of our indigenous land and human rights. He travelled extensively throughout …

Wild vampire bats have been found feeding on humans in Brazil for the first time – and they could be spreading disease. Scientists from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, led by Enrico Bernard, analysed 70 faeces samples from a colony of vampire bats, named Diphylla ecudata, that reside in Catimbau National Park in northeast Brazil. They also …

If your Facebook battery usage has been especially bad recently, it has apparently been fixed server-side. Facebook this week issued a server-side fix to a bug in its Messenger app that rapidly depleted some Android users’ batteries. This, after several users complained on Twitter and Reddit that it seemed like a recent code change was impacting battery life.

While many animals become less fertile as they age, only three species—humans, pilot whales, and killer whales—have females that regularly live well beyond their reproductive prime. These are the only species where we see grandmas acting like grandmas: they’ve long stopped producing offspring of their own, so they pivot to helping care for their children’s children. According to a new …

NEW medical study by researchers at Harvard Medical School proves what most of us have always suspected — stress can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Stress has long been associated with a range of health problems, but the study is the first to demonstrate a link between stress responses in the brain and an increased risk of cardiovascular …

Video footage of a 12-year-old girl taking her own life that was streamed and shared online and police in the United States say they are powerless to take it down. Katelyn Nicole Davis live-streamed the moment she hung herself in the front yard of her home in Cedartown, Georgia. She claimed she had been sexually abused by a family member …

The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has today announced its predictions for the technology sector in 2017. According to new research by Deloitte and reported by the FT, these sales, which include new turntables and accessories, contribute 7% to the $15 billion that the global music market is expected to reel in. Paul …

A team of MIT scientists have designed a new 3D graphene configuration. The team was able to compress and fuse together flakes of graphene to make a sponge-like configuration that is both strong and lightweight. In its two-dimensional form, graphene is thought to be the strongest of all known materials. But researchers until now have had a hard time translating …

Scientists’ analysis of the monkeys’ grunts, barks, ‘wahoos’, ‘yaks’ and copulation calls could have major implications for the evolution of language. Scientists from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Grenoble Alpes University, both in France, and their colleagues recorded baboons in captivity, finding the animals were capable of producing five distinct sounds that have the same characteristic frequencies …

Two bomb blasts near the parliament building in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, have killed at least 30 people and injured at least 70. Taliban insurgents immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings, which struck as employees were exiting the parliament complex. “The first explosion happened outside the parliament … a number of innocent workers were killed and wounded. It was caused by …

Iranians, who took part in the funeral procession of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran yesterday, chanted “Death to Russia” and accused its embassy of being an espionage hub, Arabi 21 reported. Authorities were forced to raise the volume on the loudspeakers playing lamentation songs after some in the crowds took up cries of “Oh, Hussein, Mir …