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Minnesota officer on tape: 'I don't know where the gun was'
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist told a supervisor on the scene that he didn't know where the motorist's gun was, but added that he told the motorist to get his hand off the firearm, according to audio recorded after the shooting.
Prosecutor: Teen in texting suicide case wanted attention
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A teenager charged with using text messages to encourage her boyfriend to kill himself played a "sick game" with another person's life, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
There’s a giant hole on Mars, and scientists can’t figure out where it came from
Humans have now had rovers active on Mars for almost two full decades, which is enough time that we've learned plenty about the Martian landscape. We know all about the soil, the geography, and even the places where water most likely flowed free on the surface of the red planet at one time, but we still don't know everything. One place in particular, in the souther hemisphere of Mars, is giving scientists some serious grief. It's a massive pit, and nobody knows how it got there.
Located in an area of the planet nicknamed "Swiss Cheese" thanks to its pockmarked ice fields — made of carbon dioxide, not H2O — the pit is confusing for a couple of reasons. For one, it doesn't show the telltale signs of being caused by an impact, and there isn't a well-defined debris field. If it is indeed a crater caused by an asteroid striking the planet, much of its character has long since worn away.
The other theory on the table is that it could be simply a recess in the terrain caused by a collapse underneath. If that's the case, the cause could be any number of things, including flowing water or even lava. Such a determination would likely need to be made by studying the feature close-up, but unfortunately the rovers currently cruising around the planet aren't exactly in a position to make an impromptu visit.
For now, the mysterious pit will remain an anomaly, and we'll all be left wondering if it's just a run-of-the-mill geographical quirk, or if a race of gigantic space worms once roamed the red planet.
'Moderate' drinking linked to brain damage: study
Even moderate drinking is linked to brain damage and a slight decline in mental skills, according to a study released Wednesday that calls into question many national alcohol guidelines. Men and women who consume 14-to-21 drinks a week over decades are two to three times more likely than non-drinkers to show atrophy in the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and the ability to keep one's bearings, said the study, published in the medical journal BMJ. A single drink was defined as containing 10 millilitres (eight grammes) of pure alcohol -- the equivalent of a large glass of wine, a pint of five-percent beer, or a shot of spirits such as whisky or vodka.
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