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Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi looks on during an appearance at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Aug. 22, at the start of his trial on charges of involvement in the destruction of historic mausoleums in the Malian desert city of Timbuktu. Mahdi pleaded guilty.

For First Time, Destruction Of Cultural Sites Leads To War Crime Conviction

Ahmed al-Faqi al-Mahdi was on trial in The Hague for his role in the deliberate destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu. The radical Islamist was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Harvard professor David Williams says, "Much of this discrimination that occurs in the health care context, and in other contexts of society, may not even be intentional."

Racism Is Literally Bad For Your Health

Racism affects health outcomes, a new report finds. "The day-to-day little indignities" can negatively impact people's physical health, Harvard researcher David Williams says.

An ATF agent poses with homemade rifles, or "ghost guns," at an agency field office in Glendale, Calif. There's a growing industry of companies that sell gun kits, instructions and do-it-yourself components online to help people build their own guns.

Do-It-Yourself 'Ghost Guns' Bypass Background Checks And Firearm Registration

When Kevin Neal went on his deadly shooting rampage last week in California, he used "ghost guns": homemade weapons built from kits and instructions found on the Internet.

A color-enhanced cerebral MRI showing a glioma tumor.

Thoughts Can Fuel Some Deadly Brain Cancers

A doctor-scientist's long quest to help children with a rare form of brain cancer has led to the discovery that high levels of brain activity can make glioma tumors grow faster.

Chef and journalist Wilma Consul cooks picadillo, a dish she learned to make as a young girl in the Philippines.

This Filipino Dish Is So Good It Might Make You Sing

Like many girls around the world, Wilma Consul had kitchen duty growing up in the Philippines — and resented it. But today making a childhood dish brings back fond family memories.

"We delivered computing power as if it was a utility," says Matt Wood, Amazon Web Services' chief data scientist.

The Price War Over The Cloud Has High Stakes For The Internet

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are competing to be the main landlords of the cloud. Their terms and prices could control who gets to build what on the Internet, and for how much.

President-elect Donald Trump has consistently promised to repeal Obamacare.

Trump Can Kill Obamacare With Or Without Help From Congress

The president-elect has said he will ask lawmakers to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Or he can use regulations and the budget to dismantle the federal health law he calls "a disaster."

Gwendolyn Kaeser, co-author of a new study identifying differences in gene expression among cells throughout the human brain, holds up a microscope slide, June 23, 2016.

San Diego Scientists Develop New Way Of Looking Deep Inside The Human Brain

By zooming inside individual neurons from different brain regions, scientists found diversity in how different cells transcribe their DNA.

A row of Google self-driving Lexus cars at a Google event in Mountain View, Calif. The cars use sensors and computing power to maneuver around traffic.

How Close Are We Really To A Robot-Run Society?

From self-driving cars to automated warehouses, humans are being pushed out of the equation. Soon, robots will "do a million other things we can't even conceive of," author John Markoff says.

Heroin users prepare the drug in New York City's South Bronx neighborhood.

Trump Administration To Declare Opioid Crisis A Public Health Emergency

The move stops short of declaring a national emergency, which the president had pledged to do.

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