Research: A shared past for East Africa’s hunter-gatherers —
Languages that involve "clicks" are relatively rare worldwide but are spoken by several groups in Africa. The Khoisan language family includes a handful...
Research: A volcanic binge and its frosty hangover —
A major volcanic event could have triggered one of the largest glaciations in Earth's history -- the Gaskiers glaciation, which turned the Earth...
Research: World’s biggest terrestrial carbon sinks are found in young forests —
More than half of the carbon sink in the world's forests is in areas where the trees are relatively young -- under 140...
Research: Isotope analyses performed on single amino acids in Neanderthals’ collagen samples shed new...
Neanderthals' diets are highly debated: they are traditionally considered carnivores and hunters of large mammals, but this hypothesis has recently been challenged by...
Research: Scientists produce valuable nanowires from short particles without the bulk —
A boost of vitamin C helped Rice University scientists turn small gold nanorods into fine gold nanowires.
Common, mild ascorbic acid is the not-so-secret...
Research: Researchers present a new software for the analysis of airborne wind energy systems...
Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES) are a new kind of technology to harvest wind energy. The expensive and heavy tower and rotor of...
Research: Solar tadpole-like jets seen with NASA’S IRIS add new clue to age-old mystery...
Scientists have discovered tadpole-shaped jets coming out of regions with intense magnetic fields on the Sun. Unlike those living on Earth, these "tadpoles"...
Research: 20-million-year-old tusked sea cow is Central America’s oldest marine mammal —
Steven Manchester didn't set out to discover Central America's oldest known marine mammal. He was hoping to find fossil plants.
Manchester, curator of paleobotany...
Research: New studies on cod larvae show severe organ damages caused by high CO2...
Acidification is, next to rising temperatures and dwindling oxygen concentrations, one of the major threats to marine life due to the changing global...
Research: Ancient Indigenous societies, including Mississippian Mound cultures, were built through social networks —
Long before Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and even MySpace, early Mississippian Mound cultures in America's southern Appalachian Mountains shared artistic trends and technologies across...
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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...
