Research: Young aphids piggyback on adult aphids to get to safety faster —
Young aphids may ride on the backs of adult aphids to get back to the safety of a host plant quicker, according to...
Research: Greenland ice sheet melt ‘off the charts’ compared with past four centuries —
Surface melting across Greenland's mile-thick ice sheet began increasing in the mid-19th century and then ramped up dramatically during the 20th and early...
Research: 30 years of experimental evolution results in a new sex chromosome —
The laboratory of Professor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz has published new findings of an experimental evolutionary project that ran for 30 years...
Research: A microbe’s membrane helps it survive extreme environments —
Within harsh environments like hot springs, volcanic craters and deep-sea hydrothermal vents -- uninhabitable by most life forms -- microscopic organisms are thriving....
Research: Forget ‘needle in a haystack’; try finding an invasive species in a lake...
When the tiny and invasive spiny water flea began appearing in University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers' nets in 2009, scientists began to wonder how...
Research: Puzzle of snail and slug feeding preferences solved —
Gardeners have puzzled for years as to why some seedlings are more commonly eaten by slugs and snails -- and new research suggests...
Research: Can rice filter water from agricultural fields? Research considers pesticide-cleansing properties of rice...
Rice is a staple food crop of 20 percent of the world's population. It's also grown on every continent except Antarctica.
While it's an...
Research: Sea invertebrate sheds light on evolution of human blood, immune systems —
Botryllus schlosseri, a marine invertebrate that lives in underwater colonies resembling fuzzy pinheads clinging to rocks, has a blood-forming system with uncanny similarities...
Research: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos —
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark...
Research: Fossil fuel emissions have climbed for a second straight year, driven by growing...
Global fossil fuel emissions are on track to rise for a second year in a row, primarily due to growing energy use, according...
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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...
