Research: New wasps named after biscuits and Doctor Who aliens —
University of Adelaide researchers were inspired by everything from chocolate biscuits and Doctor Who aliens when choosing names for 10 new species of...
Research: What’s in the air? There’s more to it than we thought —
Yale researchers have found that a type of air pollution is much more complicated than previous studies indicated.
Using high-powered equipment to analyze air...
Archaeology: Warm oceans helped first human migration from Asia to North America
Photo: The Pacific Ocean's currents support a diverse ecosystem, seen here from space...
Biology: Streetlights contribute less to nighttime light emissions in cities than expected
Photo: View of a street in Tucson with the lights set to 30...
Ankle bones prove Earth’s first primates lived in trees
The first exhaustive comparison of the anatomy of ankle bones in Earth’s earliest primates to other ancient primates and modern primates indicates the first...
Archaeology: Pyroclasts protect the paintings of Pompeii buried but damage them when they are...
Photo: Dr Maite Maguregui of the IBeA group taking measurements in the mural...
Biology: Wireless tech a ‘game changer’ for nuclear power plants
Photo: IAEA Wireless Working Group chairman Rudy Shankar of Lehigh University (front row,...
Research: Massive quakes make the planet ring like a bell —
By applying new data and Princeton's supercomputers to the classic question of what lies beneath our feet, Princeton seismologist Jessica Irving and an...
Research: Finding could help inform astronomers’ search for life outside our solar system —
A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4 billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth's...
Research: Invasive pines fueled 2017 fires in Knysna, South Africa —
The replacement of natural fynbos vegetation with pine plantations in the southern Cape, and the subsequent invasion of surrounding land by invasive pine...
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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...
