Research: Team constructs new family tree for group of nudibranchs; discovers color mimics —
This National Sea Slug Day, celebrate the addition of 17 new species of nudibranch to the tree of life. Adorned in lavish patterns...
Research: Free movement can protect humans from environmental threats —
Greater freedom of movement and investments in human rights and social opportunities can help protect humans from environmental threats like rising sea levels,...
Research: Whole-system view of plant cold stress —
When temperatures drop, plants can't bundle up. Stuck outside, exposed, plants instead undergo a series of biochemical changes that protect cells from damage....
Research: Researchers find cacao originated 1,500 years earlier than previously thought —
As Halloween revelers prepare to feast on chocolate, a new study from an international team of researchers, including the University of British Columbia,...
Research: Ocean acidification caused by high levels of human-made CO2 is dissolving the seafloor...
The ocean floor as we know it is dissolving rapidly as a result of human activity.
Normally the deep sea bottom is a chalky...
Research: Earliest hominin migrations into the Arabian Peninsula required no novel adaptations —
A new study, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and published in Nature Ecology and...
Research: Common species do better than rarer species —
Data collected by Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) volunteers to assess the country's changing bumblebee populations have been analysed in a new way for...
Research: Weaker land-climate feedbacks predicted when accounting more fully for nutrient uptake by plants...
Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new...
Research: A solar cell that does double duty for renewable energy —
In the quest for abundant, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, scientists have sought to harvest the sun's energy through "water splitting," an artificial...
Research: Meteorologist expects severe drought and heavy rain events to worsen globally —
A University of Oklahoma meteorologist, Elinor R. Martin, expects severe drought and long-lasting rainfall events to worsen in the future. In Martin's new...
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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...