World Children’s Day—celebrated every year on November 20—marks the anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international human rights treaty ...

A new Wisconsin law increases penalties for human trafficking and trafficking of a child. The law establishes mandatory minimum prison sentences for these crimes. The statute of limitations for ...

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That resourceful "trash panda" digging through your garbage may be more than just a nuisance -- it could be a living example of evolution in progress. A new study suggests that raccoons living near ...

With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...

Kylie M. Cairns receives funding from the Australian Dingo Foundation, the Australia and Pacific Science Foundation, the ACT government and donations from the general public. She is a director of the ...

For only the second time, researchers have obtained the full genome of a Denisovan, a group of ancient humans who lived in Asia. The DNA was extracted from a single 200,000-year-old tooth found in a ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...

They aren’t all sudden or intense, experts says. By Jancee Dunn I had a relative who experienced chest pain one afternoon. He brushed it off, and said that he’d sleep on it and that if he still felt ...

Large rock-face murals scattered across the desert in northern Saudi Arabia represent one of the most ambitious – and perilous – creative feats of ancient humans, with researchers arguing that the ...

Humans are inhaling and ingesting plastic at staggering levels, with researchers finding a credit card’s worth of microplastics in our bodies every week. An inhale of air carries more than just oxygen ...

Federal workers missed payday today as the government shutdown continues, affecting active-duty Coast Guard members in Connecticut who must continue working without pay. New Haven has received ...