Offbeat: Modern slavery promotes overfishing —
Labour abuses, including modern slavery, are 'hidden subsidies' that allow distant-water fishing fleets to remain profitable and promote overfishing, new research from the...
Offbeat: Troubling disadvantages, including bias, against women in business, study finds —
Women CEOs in America are paid less, have shorter tenures and their companies are punished in the stock market, even when their firms...
Offbeat: Scientists point out the study’s major flaws —
Amidst worldwide publicity and talks about 'Insectageddon': the extinction of 40% of the world's insects, as estimated in a recent scientific review, a...
Offbeat: How to save a seabird —
In the 1990s, the endangered status of the short-tailed albatross catalyzed efforts to reduce the number of birds accidentally killed as bycatch in...
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: High emissions findings undercut the case that gas offers substantial climate advantage over...
The U.S. oil and gas industry emits 13 million metric tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane from its operations each year, 60...
Offbeat: Populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians have, on average, declined in...
Humanity and the way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies is pushing nature and the services that power and sustain...
Offbeat: Was Mona Lisa’s smile a lie? Researchers find that Mona Lisa’s smile was...
Mona Lisa's smile has intrigued humanity since famed artist Leonardo da Vinci painted the portrait in the early 16th century. A research team...
Offbeat: Ecosystem responses to dam removal complex, but predictable —
In the United States, the removal of dams now outpaces the construction of new ones -- with more than 1,400 dams decommissioned since...
Offbeat: Sexes differ when it comes to comfort during and after exercise, study finds...
New research from the University at Buffalo has, for the first time, identified differences between men and women in their preferences for maintaining...
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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...
