Study: Mom’s comfort proven to soothe child’s pain
Dr. Regina Sullivan, neurobiologist at New York University Langone Medical Center, is the first to prove that a mother’s physical presence alone is sufficient...
Researcher proves high heels make men more helpful
High heels may be uncomfortable but wearing high heels makes men more helpful to women asking for help or in obvious need of help...
Biologists discover what ‘eyespots’ do for butterflies
The spots on some butterfly's wings that look like an eye are targets for predators so the butterfly’s bodies are not injured by an...
Genes reveal how cats became domesticated
Cats have been human companions for at least 9,000 years. Wesley C. Warren with The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in...
Dutch researcher shows why people pick bad leaders
Very few people in the world would consider the present crop of leaders and politicians as being the brightest or the best. Brian Spisak,...
The need for humans to coexist with wildfires is supported by new study
A new study led by the University of California, Berkeley, involving the University of Colorado Boulder, shows that the way wildfires around the world...
Swiss researchers develop first thought-controlled gene regulation system
Thought-controlled gene expression has stepped out of science fiction and into reality. After ten years of development, Martin Fussenegger, Professor of Biotechnology and Bioengineering...
The Biochemistry of Hydrangea Color Change
The hydrangea has long ranked as a popular garden staple for its range of color, its sizable "snowball" shape, and abundance of blossoms that...
Forty percent of Deepwater Horizon oil found on ocean floor
Forty percent of the oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe was not consumed by bacteria and did not stay on the ocean’s surface...
Prehistoric art and early religions were inspired by sound
The misinterpretation of natural events like thunder may have been the inspiration for the earliest art created by ancient men and the design of...
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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...
