Research: Protecting oceans in Patagonia for a more sustainable future —
Preserving a 300,000 square km area in Patagonian waters could improve the conservation of 20 % of the population of sea birds in...
Research: Nature’s antifreeze inspires revolutionary bacteria cryopreservation technique —
The survival mechanisms of polar fish have led scientists at the University of Warwick to develop of a revolutionary approach to 'freeze' bacteria.
The...
Research: Scientists investigate how bacteria melt to study their reaction to drugs —
With antibiotic resistance spreading worldwide, there is a strong need for new technologies to study bacteria. EMBL researchers have adapted an existing technique...
Research: Fragment of impacting asteroid recovered in Botswana —
On Saturday, June 23, 2018, a team of experts from Botswana, South Africa, Finland and the United States of America recovered a fresh...
Research: Ancient DNA testing solves 100-year-old controversy in Southeast Asian prehistory —
Two competing theories about the human occupation of Southeast Asia have been debunked by ground-breaking analysis of ancient DNA extracted from...
Research: Stripes may be cool — but they don’t cool zebras down —
Susanne Åkesson, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden, refutes the theory that zebras have striped fur to stay cool in the hot...
Research: Porous materials shed light on environmental purification —
During the last two decades, porous materials such as zeolites and metal-organic frameworks have drawn the attention of the scientific community due to...
Research: Upper and lower plate controls on the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake —
Researchers at Tohoku University's Department of Geophysics, have been studying the great Tohoku-oki earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, to the east...
Research: Past warming events suggest climate models fail to capture true warming under business-as-usual...
Future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected by climate models under business-as-usual scenarios and even if the world meets...
Research: How ‘eavesdropping’ African herbivores respond to each other’s alarm calls —
Many animals live in a world characterised by a bewildering array of signals from other species. But to what extent are individuals able...
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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...
