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3 days agoNewsDuration 2:04When there’s a salmonella outbreak, scientists do genetic sequencing on bacteria samples from infected patients and bacteria of the contaminated food product. If there is a match, it can help determine the source of the foodborne illness. Correction: A previous title on the video suggested that the B.C. Centre for Disease Control lab discovered the salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupe. In fact, the BCCDC was part of a number of labs to track the outbreak. 3 days agoNewsDuration2:04When…

In Jesse Kirkwood’s translation of The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, readers are let into a series of quests for food and love set in a quiet backstreet of Kyoto. A Kyoto bylane. (Shutterstock) The father-daughter duo, Nagare and Koishi, run a diner and a food detective agency where they not only serve delicious meals but also help customers locate dishes they have long forgotten. They have no signboard because Nagare believes that whoever is destined to be at the diner will find their way…

Do you have a pesky ghost haunting you? Has a demon stolen your core memories? You may want to ring the Dead Boy Detectives. Meet Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts... who solve mysteries. They will do anything to stick together: including escaping evil witches, Hell, and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Fraud in science is alarmingly common. Sometimes researchers lie about results and invent data to win funding and prestige. Other times, researchers might pay to stage and publish entirely bogus studies to win an undeserved pay rise—fuelling a "paper mill" industry worth an estimated €1 billion a year. …

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a game that’s not known by many, but it is beloved by those who do know about it. It was a point-and-click adventure game released by Capcom for the Nintendo DS in 2010. As a ghost, players use their powers to prevent murders by interacting with different objects. Its gameplay and puzzles feel minimalist, but its dialogue, animations, and characters were all incredibly charming, creating an adventure game like no other. Sadly, the game didn’t sell well and became particularly…

Editor James Aquilone has created several highly-successful Kickstarter anthologies over the past few years, including the 50th anniversary graphic novel for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and a horror collection of stories based on the work of William Shakespeare. The prelaunch page for Aquilone’s latest anthology project, Dead Detectives Society, is live now, described as a collection “13 new stories featuring supernatural private investigators” from creators including Kevin J. Anderson and Steve Niles. Today The Beat is…

Image: Firaxis/Marvel GamesAll the way back in 2019, Marvel Studios announced that it was working on a new solo movie for its famous vampire hunter Blade, with Mahershala Ali stepping into the shades once inhabited by Wesley Snipes. Since then, it’s been a bit of an ordeal trying to get the movie made. Now, as the film’s started to build out its cast, there’s been another wrinkle to things in the form of another writer.As revealed by the Hollywood Reporter, Nic Pizzolatto was recently brought on board to punch up the…

Were it not for his sister’s killing, Roy Rodriguez might have left Camarillo.Rachel Zendejas was sexually assaulted and slain in the small, sleepy city in Ventura County in 1981, her naked body found across the street from the apartment she shared with Rodriguez. Every year on Jan. 18 — the anniversary of her death — Rodriguez made the solemn call to detectives, asking for updates and begging to continue the search for her killer. He kept calling long after the case went cold. His parents died without any answers. His…

Before a new breed of cryptocurrency detectives helped bring him down, Ryan Felton marketed his crypto scheme with a grandiose promise: He was creating "Netflix on the blockchain."He called the crypto-themed streaming service FLiK. For a small amount of the popular digital currency ether, customers could purchase a FLiK token, which would give them access to shows and movies broadcast on the new platform. Felton described the project as an "entertainment revolution"; crypto enthusiasts bought more than $2 million worth of…

at the midnight Sun Golf Course in Fairbanks, Alaska, they say you never get the same shot twice. That’s because the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet, and as the underground permafrost thaws, it deforms the course’s fairways. This express defrost unlocks ancient organic matter—a lot of it. (The world’s permafrost holds twice as much carbon as is currently in the atmosphere.) Microbes feed on that liberated matter and fart out plumes of methane, a gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide…