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The picture itself is AI-generated — that's not a real diver, and no one is staying underwater for 5 hours on one breath. What's true: The tribe is the Bajau, sea nomads who have lived off the ocean for centuries in Southeast Asia. In 2018 a study in the journal Cell found they have significantly bigger spleens, which helps prevent hypoxia during long dives by releasing extra blood cells, and identified a gene variant that may be responsible. The variant is in the PDE10A gene

When Nolan Wells’ body was found in the water near Horn Island on July 6, two days after he disappeared, the Jackson County Sheriff’s statement that “no foul play was suspected” didn’t end questions. It started them. For his family, it was too quick. “I do absolutely respect law enforcement,” his mother Christine Wonsley said at a July 10th press conference. “The accidental drowning thing, it made both me and his father uncomfortable. Why are we so quick to rush to this? What

On the evening of July 3, 18-year-old Nolan Wells made salmon for his family. Then hug, kiss, and he left to stay with friends for the holiday. It was a familiar plan. Wells had just graduated from Ocean Springs High School in 2025 and enrolled at Southwest Mississippi Community College, where he was a wide receiver getting ready for football training camp after the July 4th weekend. On July 4th, he joined a group of high school friends for a boat trip to Horn Island — a fede

The decision to charge a Pennsylvania police officer just nine days after he fatally shot a 22-year-old white college student has sparked a separate debate online, with some people questioning why similar officer-involved shootings involving Black victims often take months or years to reach the same point. Sean Farrell, a 58-year-old corporal with the Upper Pottsgrove Police Department, was charged with voluntary manslaughter Tuesday in the Aug. 23 death of Glenwood Earl Pysh

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