When an airline loses a wheelchair during travel, the impact can be overwhelming. This practical, step-by-step guide covers your rights, immediate actions to take, compensation options, and how to protect your safety and mobility while the airline works to locate or replace your chair.

If you miss your cruise because of a flight delay, you still have some options for getting to the next port or at least a partial reimbursement if the airline is uncooperative.

Lots of people love the idea that their ancestry is a straight, spotless line—same place, same people, same “blood,” century after century. It’s neat. It’s tidy. It’s also not how humans work. According to DNA evidence discussed in the Harvard Gazette, the more scientists dig into ancient genetics, the more obvious it becomes: “pure bloodlines” aren’t rare or uncommon—they’re basically a fairy tale.

For decades, scientists believed one clear story: a single early human species boldly left Africa and spread across the world. But new fossil evidence is quietly rewriting that narrative.

Beneath the ceremonial heart of Chichen Itza (located in the Yucatan Peninsula of southeastern Mexico), archaeologists uncovered a chultun. It is a bottle-shaped chamber carved into limestone, originally designed to store water in a region where rain rarely fell. When this chamber was excavated in 1967, near the Sacred Cenote, it revealed the remains of more than 100 children. For years, these bones were studied in fragments, their meaning inferred through architecture and myth. Only recently did DNA analysis give them voices again, revealing that these boys were deliberately selected, many of them related by blood, some of them identical twins. The children were local and male, most between three and six years old. DNA was successfully extracted from 64 individuals and it confirmed all were boys, and about a quarter were closely related; two sets of identical twins. Before DNA analysis, scholars believed the chultun mass grave at Chichen Itza held victims of political spectacle or “virgin sacrifices,” often framed as dramatic displays of dominance. The new discovery, however, reframes the site entirely.

Energy stories usually start on land. This one doesn’t. It begins far offshore, where heat slips through rock and water, and where engineers and scientists see possibility instead of empty darkness waiting quietly below us.