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Offbeat: Treaty compliance aided by spotting illicit artillery exchange and duplication —
Researchers using magnetic signals have found unique "fingerprints" on steel, which could help to verify weapons treaties and reduce the use of counterfeit...
Offbeat: Analysis of leaf extract reveals novel chemistry for therapeutic ion channel activation —
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Offbeat: Study explains how political groupings become extreme and divided —
The basic human need to get along with others results in the formation of extreme political groupings, according to a study from Dartmouth...
Offbeat: Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to...
MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to...
Offbeat: US forests, wetlands, and agricultural lands could absorb a fifth of greenhouse gas...
Restoring the United States' lands and coastal wetlands could have a much bigger role in reducing global warming than previously thought, according to...
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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...
