A team of scientists led by researchers with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and Texas A&M University recently uncovered genetic traces of ancient migration in DNA from avocados ...

Earth heated 5 to 10 degrees Celsius. As a result, tree-dominated vegetation collapsed and the highly disturbed landscapes were colonized by ferns that formed savannahs across large swaths of what is ...

Fragment of the Hillsborough meteorite, broken on impact, with fusion crust from passing at high speed through the Earth’s atmosphere. July 15, 2026, Mountain View, CA -- On July 16, 2024 a daytime ...

A graphic illustrating one of the key findings from the new study, the changing costs per kilogram of payload to low Earth orbit. The expense of launching goods into space will plummet over the next ...

Colobus congoensis, known locally as “likweli,” has deep resonant roaring calls that resemble those of related Colobus species but possesses a distinct acoustic structure. For Gilbert, the discovery ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has connected a specific asteroid collision in the main belt to an inner-solar-system-wide bombardment episode that may have had measurable biological and ...

Ongoing research reveals that multifloral honey is a promising candidate for protecting human skin cells from premature ageing and cell damage caused by UV radiation, with the potential for developing ...

The blue lines represent the magnetic field lines, which are bent due to the gravitational contraction of the core. The red and green dots depict the ion and neutral molecular species, respectively, ...

In many urban areas, low-income neighborhoods have more mosquitoes, making residents more vulnerable to mosquito-borne diseases. A new study co-authored by scientists at Cary Institute of Ecosystem ...

A research team at Saitama University has discovered that calmodulin-binding peptide (CBP) can switch between two distinct target proteins depending on the surrounding metal-ion environment.

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