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LSU Mechanical Engineering graduate student Tatiana Mello of Piracicaba, Brazil, is currently working on genetically engineering and optimizing E. coli bacteria to produce...
Research: The smelling of food controls cellular recycling and affects life expectancy —
The smell of food induces a variety of physiological processes in our body. Thus, the production of saliva and digestive enzymes is stimulated...
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Research: Earliest example of animal nest sharing revealed by scientists —
An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Southampton, has shown that fossilised eggshells unearthed in western Romania represent the...
Research: Tiny Neptune moon spotted by Hubble may have broken from larger moon —
After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has at last come up with an explanation...
Research: How plants learned to save water —
Tiny pores on the leaves of plants, called stomata, have a huge influence on the state of our planet. Through the stomata, plants...
Research: Gene therapy durably reverses congenital deafness in mice —
In collaboration with the universities of Miami, Columbia and San Francisco, scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, CNRS, Collège de France, Sorbonne University...
Research: Homo sapiens colonized South Asian rainforest by hunting small mammals 45,000 years ago...
A multidisciplinary study has found evidence for humans hunting small mammals in the forests of Sri Lanka at least 45,000 years ago. 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...
