Research: New evidence that the mind-blowing brew goes back millennia —
Today's hipster creatives and entrepreneurs are hardly the first generation to partake of ayahuasca, according to archaeologists who have discovered traces of the...
Research: Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe —
The obvious drawback of solar panels is that they require sunlight to generate electricity. Some have observed that for a device on Earth...
Research: Radical desalination approach may disrupt the water industry —
Hypersaline brines -- water that contains high concentrations of dissolved salts and whose saline levels are higher than ocean water -- are a...
Research: Almost all blue supergiants shimmer in brightness because of waves on their surface...
Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented,...
Research: Cryptic mutation is cautionary tale for crop gene editing —
Even in this "age of the genome," much about genes remains shrouded in mystery. This is especially true for "cryptic mutations" -- mutated...
Research: Localized efforts to save coral reefs won’t be enough, study suggests —
A National Science Foundation study of factors that cause corals stress suggests that localized attempts to curb pollution on reefs won't save them...
Research: Young frogs that were stressed as tadpoles move less on land, putting their...
New Oregon State University research shows that juvenile northern red-legged frogs that have experienced climate-related stress as tadpoles are less likely to move...
Researchers Just Detected a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star
Only a month into a new observing run, gravitational-wave observatories have announced five new signals — one of which could turn out to be...
Research: What the wheat genome tells us about wars —
First they mapped the genome of wheat; now they have reconstructed its breeding history. Joining forces with other European researchers, scientists at the...
Research: Already specified root cells are reprogrammed to correctly replace dead neighbor cells in...
If plants are injured, cells adjacent to the wound fill the gaps with their daughter cells. However, which cells divide to do the...
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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...
