Research: Beluga whales have sensitive hearing, little age-related loss —
Scientists published the first hearing tests on a wild population of healthy marine mammals. The tests on beluga whales in Bristol Bay, AK,...
Research: Low-power design will allow devices as small as a honeybee to determine their...
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design...
Research: Swedes have been brewing beer since the Iron Age, new evidence confirms —
Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonised germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as the...
Research: Site of the next major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault? —
Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the next...
Research: Insight into infant handling by young bonobos —
University of Oregon anthropologist Klaree Boose followed her intuition about her observations of bonobos at a U.S. zoo. She now theorizes that young...
Research: Museum collection reveals distribution of Carolina parakeet 100 years after its extinction —
While 2018 marks the centenary of the death of the last captive Carolina parakeet -- North America's only native parrot, a team of...
Research: The carbon cost of deforestation —
Indonesia and Malaysia together account for nearly 85% of global palm oil production. This oil is commonly used in processed foods, cosmetics and...
Research: Montana burial site answers questions about early humans —
Scientists have shown that at the Anzick site in Montana -- the only known Clovis burial site -- the skeletal remains of a...
Research: Artificial lighting at night could be a reason for declining insect populations —
Climate change, pesticides and land use changes alone cannot fully explain the decline in insect populations in Germany. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute of...
Research: Deep-sea marine sponges may hold key to antibiotic drug resistance —
Drug resistance to antibiotics is on the rise and there is an urgent need to develop new drugs to treat infectious diseases that...
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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...
