A new EU proposal could affect owners of older cars, including vintage cars, forcing them to scrap their vehicles. The proposal has attracted strong criticism from various quarters, writes Mest motor. It is about new stricter rules for car scrapping, which mean that car owners no longer have the authority to decide when their vehicles are to be scrapped. Instead, EU criteria will define when a car... 

The Sackler Jews—responsible for the Opioid addiction crisis which has killed over half a million people in America—have been forced to pay out $275 million in a “settlement” in the third of 1,600 lawsuits against them. The agreement, negotiated with the state of Oklahoma, will allow the Sackler company, Purdue Pharmacy, which makes OxyContin, to avoid a televised courtroom trial. The payment... 

The team takes several highly magnified images of the different aspects of the species and then combines the pictures into one final image. Scientists at the California Academy of Sciences have developed a project to capture three-dimensional (3D) images of every known ant species in the world. The team has been taking photographs of the ant species in museums around the world by using a technique...