Research: Optical neural network demo —
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature...
Research: Engineers use Tiki torches in study of soot, diesel filters —
Chemical engineers testing methods to improve efficiency of diesel engines while maintaining performance are getting help from a summer staple: Tiki torches.
A team...
Research: Clusters of bacteria employ the same ‘percolation’ method we use to brew coffee...
It's the way we end up with a fresh cup of coffee from a clump of beans. It's how ocean oil rigs extract...
Research: Usually seen as less vulnerable, they carry the potential to add 16 feet...
A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica's Totten and Moscow...
Research: Adult fish ‘predict’ availability of food for their young —
In seasonal environments, timing is everything: Ecosystem dynamics are controlled by how well predators can match their prey in space and time. A...
Research: X-ray polarimetry resolves shape of matter around Cygnus X-1 black hole —
In an international collaboration between Japan and Sweden, scientists clarified how gravity affects the shape of matter near the black hole in binary...
Research: New geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently —
As an embryo develops, tissues bend into complex three-dimensional shapes that lead to organs. Epithelial cells are the building blocks of this process...
Research: Crucial factor for adaptive immunity discovered in rare disease —
In order to move, a body needs a strong scaffold. This is not only true on a macroscopic level, where animals rely on...
Research: The blueprint for El Niño diversity —
A new research study, published this week by an international team of climate scientists in the journal Nature, isolates key mechanisms that cause...
Research: Animals can use muscle as an internal water source —
Water is vital for life.
But as our climate changes, the availability of water is also changing, leaving animals with limited or unreliable supplies...
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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...
