Research: The energy in ocean waves has been increasing as a consequence of climate...
Sea level rise puts coastal areas at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, but new research shows they face other climate-related...
Scripps study discovery illuminates how brain cells die in prion diseases
Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), are fast-moving, fatal dementia syndromes associated with the formation of aggregates of the prion protein, PrP. How...
Study: Silver-based electrode films could be used for flexible touch displays, televisions and solar...
Researchers have demonstrated large-scale fabrication of a new type of transparent conductive electrode film based on nanopatterned silver. Smartphone touch screens and flat...
Research: The discovery highlights the urgent need of modern DNA tools when studying rapidly...
Known to science since 1857, a common species of true frog (a "true frog" is one assigned to the family Ranidae), found from...
Tool study shows language began over two million years ago
The most primitive form of language developed by the earliest of human ancestors was coincident with the development of stone cutting tools for eviscerating...
Research: Micro-earthquakes preceding a 4.2 earthquake near Istanbul as early warning signs? —
One of the high-risk geological structures lies near Istanbul, a megacity of 15 million people. The North Anatolian fault, separating the Eurasian and...
A real life space botanist comments on the potato garden in ‘The Martian’
In the hit movie, “The Martian,” stranded astronaut Mark Watney famously survives on Mars by creating a potato garden using Martian soil mixed in...
Research: New £10m centre to explore links between organisms and their microbiomes
The £10m Leverhulme Centre for the Holobiont aims to create a green revolution in agriculture, rescue threatened species, and restore habitats.
The Centre, which has...
Biology: Quality control mechanism closes the protein production ‘on-ramps’
Photo: An illustration of stalled ribosomes as stalled cars on a freeway. New...
Research: Dry conditions may have helped a new type of plant gain a foothold...
In the dramatically changing conditions of ancient Earth, organisms had to evolve new strategies to keep up. From the mid-Oligocene, roughly 30 million...
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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...
