6 days ago
Search for the missing million
Parsons working with younger Vietnamese scientists on the identification efforts at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, in Hanoi. — Linh Pham/The New York Times
THE tombstones said 'unknown martyr'. The bones were decades old and covered in reddish mud, staining the white lab coats of a half-dozen visiting scientists.
'This tooth good?' asked a junior researcher, holding up a jawbone pulled from a grave.