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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 —
Researchers in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine have discovered the molecular basis for...
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...
Offbeat: Psychological science can make your meetings better —
Drawing from almost 200 scientific studies on workplace meetings, a team of psychological scientists provides recommendations for making the most out of meetings...
Offbeat: Use of organophosphates has lessened, but risks to early brain development still too...
Public health experts have found there is sufficient evidence that prenatal exposure to widely used insecticides known as organophosphates puts children at risk...
Offbeat: Millions in danger of food insecurity due to severe Caribbean droughts —
Climate change is impacting the Caribbean, with millions facing increasing food insecurity and decreasing freshwater availability as droughts become more likely across the...
Offbeat: Fundamental principles of thinking —
It is one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: How do humans think? Until recently, we seemed far from a conclusive answer....
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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...
