Research: Relationship between jet stream, atmospheric blocking events —
Climate change will increase the size of stalled high-pressure weather systems called "blocking events" that have already produced some of the 21st century's...
Report: Plants Are Green Because They Reject Harmful Colors
When sunlight shining on a leaf changes rapidly, plants must protect themselves from the ensuing sudden surges of solar energy. To cope with these...
Report: The strange orbits of ‘Tatooine’ planetary disks
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found striking orbital geometries in protoplanetary disks around binary stars. While disks orbiting the most...
Research: Almost all blue supergiants shimmer in brightness because of waves on their surface...
Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented,...
Climate researchers uncover 30-year-old temperature record
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized a temperature of -69.6°C (-93.3°F) at an automatic weather station in Greenland on 22 December 1991 as...
Research: These teeth add to an emerging picture of complex human evolution in Middle...
Fossil teeth from Italy, among the oldest human remains on the Italian Peninsula, show that Neanderthal dental features had evolved by around 450,000...
Research: It’s a bird-eat-bird world —
Baby birds and eggs are on the menu for at least 94 species of animals in Australia's forests and woodlands, according to new...
Research: Tiny fragment of a comet found inside a meteorite —
A tiny piece of the building blocks from which comets formed has been discovered inside a primitive meteorite. The discovery by a Carnegie...
Research: Violence in pre-Columbian Panama exaggerated, new study shows —
Buried alive. Butchered. Decapitated. Hacked. Mutilated. Killed. Archaeologist Samuel K. Lothrop did not obfuscate when describing what he thought had happened to the...
Research: Fresh insight into invasive plant that blights UK rivers —
New research into the behaviour of an invasive plant seen on riverbanks across the UK could help improve the management of the problem,...
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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...
