Offbeat: Universal features of music around the world —
Is music really a "universal language"? Two articles in the most recent issue of Science support the idea that music all around the...
Offbeat: The difference between an expert’s brain and a novice’s —
When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from 'novice' to 'expert.' The changes...
Offbeat: Data-driven definition of unhealthy yet pervasive ‘hyper-palatable’ foods —
A popular U.S. brand of potato chips once promoted itself with the slogan, "betcha can't eat just one!"
Maybe that's because potato chips, like...
Offbeat: Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business —
Capturing carbon dioxide and turning it into commercial products, such as fuels or construction materials, could become a new global industry, according to...
Offbeat: Children told lies by parents subsequently lie more as adults, face adjustment difficulty...
"If you don't behave, I'll call the police," is a lie that parents might use to get their young children to behave. Parents'...
Offbeat: Testing a new method for verification of weapons reduction —
How do weapons inspectors verify that a nuclear bomb has been dismantled? An unsettling answer is: They don't, for the most part. When...
Offbeat: Slower growth in working memory linked to teen driving crashes
Research into why adolescent drivers are involved in motor vehicle crashes, the leading cause of injury and death among 16- to 19-year-olds in...
Offbeat: Repetitive impacts key to understanding sports-associated concussions —
Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have announced a significant advance in our understanding of mild head trauma (concussive brain injury) and how it...
Offbeat: Researchers find 95 percent of fish species in the deep ocean would go...
Thousands of marine species could be at risk if a new United Nations high-seas biodiversity treaty, now being negotiated in New York, does...
Offbeat: New science blooms after star researchers die —
The famed quantum physicist Max Planck had an idiosyncratic view about what spurred scientific progress: death. That is, Planck thought, new concepts generally...
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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...
