Research: Wildlife is abundant in Chernobyl, study reveals —
A scavenger study that used fish carcasses as bait provides additional evidence that wildlife is abundant in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, University of...
Research: Butterflies thrive in grasslands surrounded by forest —
For pollinating butterflies, it is more important to be close to forests than to agricultural fields, according to a study of 32,000 butterflies...
Research: Study fine-tunes pyrolysis technique to make soil fertile again —
Rice University engineers have figured out how soil contaminated by heavy oil can not only be cleaned but made fertile again.
How do they...
Research: How predatory plankton created modern ecosystems after ‘Snowball Earth’ —
Around 635 to 720 million years ago, during Earth's most severe glacial period, Earth was twice almost completely covered by ice, according to...
Research: How plants cope with iron deficiency —
Research groups from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Münster (WWU) have discovered a new switch that plants use to...
Research: Microbes hitched to insects provide a rich source of new antibiotics —
Medicine was transformed in the 20th century by the discovery and development of antibiotics, the vast majority of which came from one source:...
Research: Strategies for growing biomass for fuel can have economic, ecological and environmental benefits...
In efforts to curb our use of greenhouse gas-generating fossil fuels, plant-based biofuels are among the top contenders as alternative liquid energy sources...
Research: Microbes help make the coffee —
When it comes to processing coffee beans, longer fermentation times can result in better taste, contrary to conventional wisdom. Lactic acid bacteria play...
Research: Novel hypothesis goes underground to predict future of Greenland ice sheet —
The Greenland ice sheet melted a little more easily in the past than it does today because of geological changes, and most of...
Venus and Jupiter align to create spectacle in the sky (Photo)
Jupiter and Venus are hundreds of millions miles apart but they have lined up with the moon to light up the morning sky.
The phenomenon,...
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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...
