North Carolina

Human History Recorded In Mud

When you step into mud, it kind of slurps up between your toes. What if someone found your mud-slurping footprint 15,000 years from now?

Scientists have uncovered 15,000 year old fossil human footprints, with incredible, mud-slurping detail. What do they tell us about the people that lived there? 

What Went Wrong — A Police Video Deconstructed

What's striking about all the controversial police videos we've covered is how different they can look to people, depending on their backgrounds. We asked several people to watch the video, each one separately, and then added their observations as "pop-up" quotes in the video.

What Went Wrong — A Police Video Deconstructed

Body camera footage shows two police officers responding to a routine call about a possible burglary in North Carolina. The encounter comes to a bad end, but what's fascinating is how it gets there.