Why thieves are taking 'worthless' family pets: Even old cats nobody would pay for and dogs too old to breed are at risk - as Amazon driver makes off with beloved cat

This week a video emerged of an Amazon driver brazenly scooping up a family cat while he was delivering a package after he ...

5,500-year-old skeleton yields oldest evidence yet of syphilis-related bacteria

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
Live Science

5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
Scientific American

The bacterium behind syphilis has a far more ancient history than we thought

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Teen who shot brother pleads guilty to gun rampage that killed five

Teen who shot brother pleads guilty to shooting rampage that killed four others - Austin David Thompson was 15 at the time of the attack in his Raleigh neighborhood ...