Research: Ancient DNA tells the story of the first herders and farmers in east...
A collaborative study led by archaeologists, geneticists and museum curators is providing answers to previously unsolved questions about life in sub-Saharan Africa thousands...
Research: Technology could safely reduce malaria mosquito populations, including insecticide-resistant strains —
According to the World Health Organization, malaria affects hundreds of millions of people around the world, killing more than 400,000 annually. Decades of...
Research: Research study first to show multiple genes working together to cause disease —
Congenital heart disease occurs in up to 1% of live births, and the infants who are affected may require multiple surgeries, life-long medication,...
Research: Pain free, thanks to evolution —
African mole-rats are insensitive to many different kinds of pain. As an international research team led by the MDC's Gary Lewin reports in...
Research: NIST physicists ‘teleport’ logic operation between separated ions —
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as a quantum logic operation between...
Research: Engineers boost potential for creating successor to shrinking transistors —
Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors,...
Research: Some songbird nests are especially vulnerable to magpie predation —
A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds.
Researchers from University of...
Research: Africa’s elephant poaching rates in decline, but iconic animal still under threat —
Elephant poaching rates in Africa have started to decline after reaching a peak in 2011, an international team of scientists have concluded.
However, the...
Research: Domino effect of species extinctions also damages biodiversity —
The mutual dependencies of many plant species and their pollinators mean that the negative effects of climate change are exacerbated. As UZH researchers...
Research: Birds have a notion of ‘green’ versus ‘blue,’ but the line between them...
Birds may not have a word for maroon. Or burnt sienna. But show a zebra finch a sunset-colored object, and she'll quickly decide...
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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...
