Research: Social behavior of western lowland gorillas —
A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences reveals one of the enigmas related to the...
Research: Sharp bends make rivers wander —
Left to their own devices and given enough time, rivers wander, eroding their banks and leaving their old channels behind. It's a behavior...
Research: Cuvier’s beaked whales go a mile deep, hold breath for an hour —
A new Duke University-led study provides the first detailed record of the diving behavior of Cuvier's beaked whales in U.S. Atlantic waters.
Cuvier's beaked...
Research: Insects crave salt and search grasslands for the limiting nutrient —
A University of Oklahoma team from the Geographical Ecology Group has published a new study in the journal Ecology on the nutritional preferences...
Research: Current international climate policies do not take into account full effects on global...
The weather these days is wild and will be wilder still within a century -- in part, because the water from melting ice...
Research: That’s bad news for sustainable agriculture —
A new U of T study suggests that globally we're growing more of the same kinds of crops, and this presents major challenges...
Research: Fate of the subducted oceanic crust revealed by laboratory experiments —
Professor Tetsuo Irifune of the Geodynamics Research Center (GRC) of Ehime University heads a research group investigating the Earth's interior by means of...
Research: Chemical conversion process could transform polyolefin waste —
The United Nations estimates that more than 8 million tons of plastics flow into the oceans each year. A new chemical conversion process...
Research: Corals adapt photosynthetic rates to prevailing environmental conditions —
Similar to forests on land, the most important source of energy for tropical shallow water coral reefs is light. Photosynthetic algae, called zooxanthellae,...
Research: Study reveals unsettling multidrug antibiotic resistance in remote Arctic soil microbes —
A University of Kansas geologist's work in the remote High Arctic of Norway has exposed the startling global spread of antibiotic-resistant microbes --...
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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...
