Research: Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops —
Once dismissed as 'junk DNA' that served no purpose, a family of 'jumping genes' found in tomatoes has the potential to accelerate crop...
Researchers Find Direct Evidence of ‘Day One’ of Dinosaurs’ Extinction
Scientists say they have discovered new details about the day an asteroid hit Earth and killed off the dinosaurs.
In a new study, an international...
Research: Did mosasaurs do the breast stroke? —
Mosasaurs were true sea monsters of late Cretaceous seas. These marine lizards -- related to modern snakes and monitor lizards -- grew as...
Research: 13 years of antibiotic resistance trends in bottlenose dolphins —
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges in the world today since many common bacterial infections are developing resistance to...
Friday the 13th Harvest Moon shines over Canada (Pictures)
Saturday, September 14th 2019, 11:52 am - The last time we saw a Friday the 13th Harvest Moon was in 1935.
One of the rarest...
MIT researchers develop ‘blackest black’ material to date
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a material that they claim is 10 times blacker than anything discovered before.
A pair...
Researchers use nighttime chill to power device
Stanford University scientists Wei Li and Shanhui Fan and a University of California Los Angeles materials scientist Aaswath Raman have created a device that...
Enormous bubbles spotted rushing out from Milky Way’s center
The centre of our galaxy has blown some bubbles. Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa have discovered a pair of enormous bubbles...
Two Asteroids Will Safely Fly By Earth This Weekend, NASA reveals
Two asteroids will fly past Earth Friday and Saturday including one that's almost the size of the world's tallest building, but astronomers say neither...
New comet from another star system just spotted
Oumuamua 2.0? It Looks Like There’s a New Interstellar Object Passing Through the Solar System.
Astronomers think the object they’ve labeled C/2019 Q4 – discovered...
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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...
