Research: By turning molecular structures into sounds, researchers gain insight into protein structures and...
Want to create a brand new type of protein that might have useful properties? No problem. Just hum a few bars.
In a surprising...
Research: What made humans ‘the fat primate’? Changes in DNA packaging curbed our body’s...
Blame junk food or a lack of exercise. But long before the modern obesity epidemic, evolution made us fat too.
"We're the fat primates,"...
Research: Mixing skin oil and ozone can produce a personal pollution cloud —
When ozone and skin oils meet, the resulting reaction may help remove ozone from an indoor environment, but it can also produce a...
Research: Scientists discover how plants breathe — and how humans shaped their ‘lungs’ —
Scientists have discovered how plants create networks of air channels -- the lungs of the leaf -- to transport carbon dioxide (CO2) to...
Research: Study explains universal pattern in fossil record —
Throughout life's history on earth, biological diversity has gone through ebbs and flows -- periods of rapid evolution and of dramatic extinctions. We...
Research: Mass extinction hurt land plants, but DNA shows that some fungus/plant combo organisms...
When an asteroid smacked into the Earth 66 million years ago, it triggered mass extinctions all over the planet. The most famous victims...
Research: ‘Bathtub rings’ around Titan’s lakes might be made of alien crystals —
The frigid lakeshores of Saturn's moon Titan might be encrusted with strange, unearthly minerals, according to new research being presented here.
Scientists re-creating Titan-esque...
Research: ALMA pinpoints the formation site of planet around nearest young star —
Researchers using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) found a small dust concentration in the disk around TW Hydrae, the nearest young star. It...
Research: Domestic beehives linked to spike in viral infections in nearby bumblebee populations —
Many species of wild bumblebees are in decline -- and new research shows that diseases spread by domestic honeybees may be a major...
Research: Comparisons of the teeth of extinct crocodyliforms to modern day animals allow new...
Based on careful study of fossilized teeth, scientists Keegan Melstom and Randall Irmis at the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University...
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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...
