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...
Research: Eradicate rats to bolster coral reefs —
Rat control should be considered an urgent conservation priority on many remote tropical islands to protect vulnerable coral reefs, according to an international...
Research: Did humans leave Africa earlier than previously thought? Discovery of ancient tools in...
Ancient tools and bones discovered in China by archaeologists suggest early humans left Africa and arrived in Asia earlier than previously thought.
The artefacts...
Research: A fish that subtracts its own electric signals to better ‘see’ through its...
The elephant-nose fish Gnathonemus petersii relies on electricity to find food and navigate through the obstacles riddling its native murky African rivers. On...
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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...
