by Mr. Leadville | Jan 13, 2022 | Leadville News
Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, impacting about 1 in 700 newborns around the world. At some point during their first hours and days of embryonic development, their dividing cells fail to properly wriggle a chromosome pair away from each other,...
by Mr. Leadville | Jan 13, 2022 | Leadville News
On Dec. 26, Bobby White and Josh Trujillo, two students from the Colorado School of Mines, were skiing in Berthoud Pass, Colorado. They picked their way carefully through the backcountry, aware that the conditions were ripe for an avalanche. All of a sudden, they...
by Mr. Leadville | Jan 13, 2022 | Leadville News
“Ghost guns” are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco, on Nov. 27, 2019.AP Photo/Haven Daley, File Because ghost guns are built in parts, buyers can evade background checks from licensed gun dealers....
by Mr. Leadville | Jan 13, 2022 | Leadville News
A group of Utah hunters came across a large, black canid on the side of a Duchesne County highway on Jan. 4. If their suspicions are confirmed, it would be the first wolf discovered in Utah in nearly 20 years. Wildlife officials with the Utah Department of Wildlife...
by Mr. Leadville | Jan 13, 2022 | Leadville News
One of the hardest things to grasp about the climate crisis is the connectedness of all things. One recent drizzly afternoon, I drove from Charleston, West Virginia, to the John Amos coal-fired power plant on the banks of the Kanawha River, near the town of Nitro. In...
