Research: Using fungi to search for medical drugs —
An enormous library of products derived from more than ten thousand fungi could help us find new drugs. Researchers from the group of...
Research: What keeps cells in shape? New research points to two types of motion...
The health of cells is maintained, in part, by two types of movement of their nucleoli, a team of scientists has found. This...
Research: Discovery of tendon stem cells could be a game-changer when it comes to...
The buildup of scar tissue makes recovery from torn rotator cuffs, jumper's knee, and other tendon injuries a painful, challenging process, often leading...
Study: Environmental stress negatively impacts women in climate hotspots
Environmental stress negatively affects women’s agency - the ability to make meaningful choices and strategic decisions - in climate hotspots in Africa and Asia,...
Study: Canadians dying at a higher rate in areas with more air pollution
Air pollution – even at levels below national and international air quality guidelines – is associated with an increased risk of deaths in Canada,...
Chinese scientists discover unpredicted stellar black hole
Scientists from National Astronomical Observatories at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a stellar black hole with a mass 70 times greater than...
Researchers find an area completely devoid of life
Scientists have confirmed the absence of microbial life in hot, saline, hyperacid ponds in the Dallol geothermal field in Ethiopia.
The scientists, including those from...
Picture: Girl in 121-year-old photo resembles Greta Thunberg
The long braided pigtails, the face shape, and the look in the eyes of a girl in a photograph from 1898 have sparked online...
Study: Human songs are more universal than we might have thought
Researchers have confirmed every society on the planet makes music and it is used in "strikingly similar ways," from lullabies to love songs.
“Our article...
Researchers may have discovered the fifth force of nature
A new paper suggests that the mysterious X17 subatomic particle is indicative of a fifth force of nature.
Researchers at Hungary's Atomki Nuclear Research Institute...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
