Research: Unusual property of the ultrastrong material could be harnessed for twisting or pulling...
Spider silk, already known as one of the strongest materials for its weight, turns out to have another unusual property that might lead...
Research: Biologists capture super-creepy photos of Amazon spiders making meals of frogs, lizards —
Warning to arachnophobes and the faint of heart: This is the stuff of nightmares, so you might want to proceed with caution.
A University...
Research: 2018’s biggest volcanic eruption of sulfur dioxide —
The Manaro Voui volcano on the island of Ambae in the nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean made the 2018 record...
Research: 4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously...
The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs -- a trait known as...
Research: Asian elephants may lose up to 42 percent of suitable habitats in India...
Protecting and expanding suitable habitats for wildlife is key to the conservation of endangered species, but owing to climate and land use change...
Research: Defenders’ behavior and brain gene activity reflects origin of attacking slavemakers —
Temnothorax americanus is a slavemaking ant found in northeastern America. These tiny social insects neither rear their offspring nor search for food themselves....
Research: 2015-2016 El Niño triggered disease outbreaks across globe —
The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that...
Research: How Capsella followed its lonely heart —
The Brassicaceae plant family boasts a stunning diversity of fruit shapes. But even in this cosmopolitan company the heart-shaped seed pods of the...
Research: Silent long-term circulation in Thailand —
The circulation of the dengue virus for the past sixty years in South-East Asia is relatively well known. For Zika, the situation is...
Research: Amoebae diversified at least 750 million years ago, far earlier than expected —
Brazilian researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of amoebae and demonstrated that at the end of the Precambrian period, at least 750 million...
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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...
