Research: How Earth’s mantle is like a Jackson Pollock painting —
In countless grade-school science textbooks, the Earth's mantle is a yellow-to-orange gradient, a nebulously defined layer between the crust and the core.
To geologists,...
Research: Profitable approach to cleaning the air —
A relatively simple process could help turn the tide of climate change while also turning a healthy profit. That's one of the hopeful...
Research: Giant impact caused difference between Moon’s hemispheres —
The stark difference between the Moon's heavily-cratered farside and the lower-lying open basins of the Earth-facing nearside has puzzled scientists for decades.
Now, new...
Research: Team of biologists, engineers and physicists uncover origins of precise cellular reproduction —
Working with bacteria, a multidisciplinary team at the University of California San Diego has provided new insight into a longstanding question in science:...
Research: Dangerous pathogens use this sophisticated machinery to infect hosts —
Gastric cancer, Q fever, Legionnaires' disease, whooping cough -- though the infectious bacteria that cause these dangerous diseases are each different, they all...
Research: Earliest evidence of the cooking and eating of starch —
New discoveries made at the Klasies River Cave in South Africa's southern Cape, where charred food remains from hearths were found, provide the...
Research: Scientists propose rethinking ‘endangered species’ definition to save slow-breeding giants —
Conservation decisions based on population counts may fail to protect large, slow-breeding animals from irrevocable decline, according to new research coinciding with Endangered...
Research: Owning a dog is influenced by our genetic make-up —
A team of Swedish and British scientists have studied the heritability of dog ownership using information from 35,035 twin pairs from the Swedish...
Research: Warming climate threatens microbes in alpine streams —
Changes to alpine streams fed by glaciers and snowfields due to a warming climate threaten to dramatically alter the types of bacteria and...
Research: Global invasion routes of the red swamp crayfish, described based on genetics —
A study led by researchers at the Doñana Biological Station of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in collaboration with institutions in Europe,...
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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...
