An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis), an economically important crop marketed for the elaboration of mate, the third-most widely ...

A type Ia supernova event called SN 2022abvt was discovered two years ago in the spiral galaxy LEDA 132905. LEDA 132905 resides over 400 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. “The ...

In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, paleontologists analyzed the fossilized remains of the alvarezsaurid dinosaur Bonapartenykus from the Allen Formation of Patagonia. Their results shed ...

Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have identified nine rings — more than previously detected by any ...

The newly-discovered hadrosaurid footprints date back to approximately 70 million years ago (Cretaceous period). One of them is around 92 cm (3 feet) across, making it one of the largest hadrosaurid ...

The newly-discovered coin hoard was carefully wrapped in cloth and lead. The coins within the hoard were issued during the reigns of Harold I ‘Harefoot’ (1036-40), Harthacnut (1040-2) and Edward the ...

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESO’s Very Large Telescope provide evidence that outbursts from supermassive black holes can help cool down gas to feed themselves. In a new study, ...

A new genus and species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine bird has been identified from a nearly complete and articulated skeleton preserved with traces of feathers found in northeastern China.

“The bond between carbon and fluorine atoms in PFAS is very strong, so most microbes cannot use it as an energy source,” said Professor Diana Aga, a researcher at the University at Buffalo and SUNY.

Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. How this apex predator gradually adapted to the extreme environments remains ...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur based on depictions of the now-destroyed specimen from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt. The ...