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A forensic expert has added his voice to growing concerns about Riley Strain's last moments after his body was pulled from the Cumberland River in Tennessee without pants. The half-naked body of the 22-year-old student was hauled from the water on Friday, 14 days after he vanished in Nashville on a night out. An initial police autopsy found no indication of foul play, but also no signs that he drowned after leaving Luke's Bridge Food and Drink at 9.30pm on March 22. A second autopsy ordered by the family confirmed there was no water in his lungs, increasing fears that...

Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction. The production of 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at the Joint European Torus – or JET – experiment in England has been called "a breakthrough" by some news outlets and caused quite a lot of excitement among physicists. But a common line regarding fusion electricity production is that it is "always 20 years away." We are a nuclear physicist and a nuclear engineer who study how to develop controlled nuclear fusion for the purpose of generating...

WEYBRIDGE, Vt. -- When Revolutionary War soldier Josiah Clark was buried in a small Vermont cemetery near a river bank in 1835, it was supposed to be his final resting place. But erosion over the years made worse by more intense storms has washed away some graves and left the remains of Clark, who fought at the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts, precariously perched on the edge of the steep eroding bank. “That’s a big part of our history, and I think it’s terrible that ... this is happening,” said Tom Giffin, president of the Vermont Old Cemetery...

ABC News called Chattanooga police about a pro-Trump college woman who posted a photo of herself with a handgun.The woman, 22 years-old Brenna Spencer, a senior at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, is shown in the photo with her pink Women for Trump shirt lifted to reveal a handgun tucked in the waistband of her white jeans. Spencer captioned the photo, “I don’t take normal college graduation photos…”

A scientific study claims to shed new light on the decades-long mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart. Richard Jantz, an emeritus anthropology professor at the University of Tennessee, argues that bones discovered on the Pacific Island of Nikumaroro in 1940 were likely Earhart’s remains. The research contradicts a forensic analysis of the remains in 1941 that described the bones as belonging to a male. The bones, which were subsequently lost, continue to be a source of debate. Earhart, who was attempting to fly around the world, disappeared with navigator Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937, during a flight from...

A national women's group is urging companies that sponsor Peyton Manning to cut ties with the Broncos quarterback. UltraViolet, a group made up of over 700,000 people, specifically called out Papa John's and Nationwide Insurance as two companies that should suspend ties with Manning immediately. The group would also like the NFL to investigate the 1996 incident at the University of Tennessee that took place between Manning and former Volunteers trainer Jamie Naughright.

The Fordham Law Republicans are sponsoring a screening of a 46-minute documentary Brainwashing 101 on Thursday, February 24th, 2005, at 6 p.m. The film, which analyzes political correctness on college campuses, was recently named one of the ten best documentaries of 2004 by the Liberty Film Festival. Brainwashing 101 will be shown in the McNally Amphitheater of Fordham Law School at 140 West 62nd Street (between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues). A question-and-answer session with director Evan Coyne Maloney will follow the screening. All are welcome; admission is free. If you are not able to attend the screening, you can view...