Sending human remains to the Moon on the first commercial lunar lander, Peregrine 1, on Jan. 8, 2024, along with scientific instruments, caused a controversy. Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, objected, saying that “the moon holds a sacred place” in Navajo and other tribal traditions and should not […]
human remains
459 posts
A human skeleton at a prehistoric burial site in southern Brazil, where DNA of bacteria similar to the syphilis bacterium has been found Jose Filippini Bacterial DNA that is closely related to the syphilis bacterium has been found in 2000-year-old human remains in Brazil, making these the oldest known samples […]
The private Peregrine moon lander’s long journey is about to come to an end, back on its home planet. Peregrine will likely slam into Earth’s atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean today (Jan. 18) around 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT), according to its builder, the Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic. “Astrobotic has […]
For better or worse, the moon is officially open for business. On Monday (Jan. 8), United Launch Alliance’s shiny new Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander and the Celestis and Elysium memorial payloads containing human remains and DNA. Two memorial […]
United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic are about to make history. On Jan. 8, a ULA rocket will send Astrobiotic’s Peregrine lander toward the moon. If it lands successfully, Peregrine will become the first private lander ever to reach the lunar surface. The mission will also mark the debut […]
CNN — The American Museum of Natural History in New York will remove all human remains displayed in its exhibits and is preparing a new storage location for its collection of 12,000 remains – which includes skeletal remains of Indigenous and enslaved Black people – according to a letter from […]
CNN — Investigators removed 189 sets of human remains from a Colorado funeral home offering “green burials” where law enforcement officials said bodies had been “improperly stored,” according to the local sheriff’s department. The remains were found in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, about 30 miles south […]
An alligator was spotted with human remains in its mouth by a passer-by in Florida. The 13-foot reptile was spotted by Jamarcus Bullard in a canal in Largo, about 20 miles west of Tampa. He said he saw the the alligator and a corpse in the water on Friday afternoon. […]