Research: Did mosasaurs hunt like killer whales? —
Did prehistoric sea creatures called mosasaurs subdue prey by ramming them with their bony snouts like killer whales do today?
It's a theory that...
Research: Newly described fossils could help reveal why some dinos got so big —
By the time non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, plant-eating sauropods like the Brontosaurus had grown to gargantuan proportions. Weighing in as much as 100...
Research: New research raises methodological problems in assessing impacts of humans on evolution —
Are human disturbances to the environment driving evolutionary changes in animals and plants? A new study conducted by McGill researchers finds that, on...
Research: Efficient method for making single-atom-thick, wafer-scale materials opens up opportunities in flexible electronics...
Since the 2003 discovery of the single-atom-thick carbon material known as graphene, there has been significant interest in other types of 2-D materials...
Research: Fine-tuning the ‘just right’ signal load —
In the fairy tale "Goldilock and the Three Bears," the girl Goldilock goes to the bears' house where she finds three bowls of...
Research: World’s fastest camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second —
What happens when a new technology is so precise that it operates on a scale beyond our characterization capabilities? For example, the lasers...
Research: Do lizards dream like us? —
Researchers from the Sleep Team at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CNRS / INSERM / Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University / Université Jean...
Research: Human retinas grown in a dish explain how color vision develops —
Biologists at Johns Hopkins University grew human retinas from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are made.
The...
Research: Purdue researchers find light-active version of heme may help people infected with MRSA...
Purdue University researchers are testing whether a light-active version of heme, the molecule responsible for transporting oxygen in blood circulation, may help people...
Research: Death of a massive star and birth of compact neutron star binary —
A Caltech-led team of researchers has observed the peculiar death of a massive star that exploded in a surprisingly faint and rapidly fading...
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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...
