Research: New cryoprotective increases motility of sperm after thawing —
A new mixture of cryoprotectives allows for an unprecedented high motility of frozen rhinoceros sperm after thawing, report scientists from the Leibniz Institute...
Research: With faster, cheaper, more precise technique, authors say it’s ‘off to the races’...
In an achievement that has significant implications for research, medicine, and industry, UC San Francisco scientists have genetically reprogrammed the human immune cells...
Research: Salamanders show more resistance to global warming than previously believed —
The plethora of salamanders living in the southern Appalachian Mountains might be in less danger from the effects of global warming than previously...
Research: Primates adjust grooming to their social environment —
Working together and exchanging services for the benefit of everyone involved is crucial for humans and partly responsible for our success as a...
Research: Researchers find out how plants evolve diversity in the genes that prevent self-fertilization...
Self-fertilization is a problem, as it leads to inbreeding. Recognition systems that prevent self-fertilization have evolved to ensure that a plant mates only...
Research: Snorts indicate positive emotions in horses —
New evidence that horses reliably produce more snorts in favorable situations could improve animal welfare practices, according to a study published July 11...
Research: LED lights reduce seabird death toll from fishing by 85 percent —
Illuminating fishing nets with low-cost lights could reduce the terrible impact they have on seabirds and marine-dwellers by more than 85 per cent,...
Research: The highly complex sugarcane genome has finally been sequenced —
CIRAD and its partners had to use cunning to establish the first sugarcane reference sequence. The plant's genome is so complex that conventional...
Research: Humans did not stem from a single ancestral population in one region of...
A scientific consortium led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and researcher at the Max Planck...
Research: Coating fertilizer helps improve its efficacy —
Take a trip down into the soil beneath a field of crops. You won't find just dirt, water, and creepy-crawlies. You'll also find...
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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...
