Science: Mineralogist’s big data approach improves resolution of a Curiosity instrument by an order...
A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison and including Bob Hazen have revealed the mineralogy of Mars at an unprecedented scale,...
Study breakthrough in fight against chytrid fungus
For frogs dying of the invasive chytridiomycosis disease, the leading cause of amphibian deaths worldwide, the genes responsible for protecting them may actually be...
Science: Study shows dogs can sniff out laurel wilt-infected avocado trees well in advance...
A study out of Florida International University evaluates the use of scent-discriminating canines for the detection of laurel wilt-affected wood from avocado trees....
Research: Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn’t exist —
As if black holes weren't mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling...
Research: Climate change likely caused migration, demise of ancient Indus Valley civilization —
More than 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India,...
Climate Change: Researchers call for robust goal for species in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Photo: In September 2018, researchers declared that the Spix's macaw was extinct in...
Research: Wintertime arctic sea ice growth slows long-term decline —
New NASA research has found that increases in the rate at which Arctic sea ice grows in the winter may have partially slowed...
Research: Modelling data in reverse offers hints for how the arrow of time emerges...
Watch a movie backwards and you'll likely get confused -- but a quantum computer wouldn't. That's the conclusion of researcher Mile Gu at...
Rediscovery of the Bizarre Egg-Laying Mammal After 60 Years
An iconic, egg-laying mammal, Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, previously unseen for over sixty years, has been rediscovered in the Cyclops Mountains of Indonesia's Papua Province....
Research: Microorganisms, including potential pathogens, travel from sea to land via fog —
Fog can act as a vector for microbes, transferring them long distances and introducing them into new environments. So reports an analysis of...
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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...
