The updated family tree, detailed in two complementary papers published today in the journal Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...
Sugarcane, the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, has shaped global history, trade and geopolitics, and is currently responsible for 80% of sugar...
Pebanista yacuruna is the closest relative of living South Asian river dolphins (genus Platanista).
Artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna. Image...
Entomologists have discovered a remarkable new genus and species of longhorn beetle living in the subtropical rainforests of southeastern Queensland, Australia.
Excastra...
Cranberries have the highest polyphenol and antioxidant capacity among fruits and vegetables and may protect against exercise-induced free radical production,...
The tricarbon molecule (C3) is likely produced in the upper atmosphere of Titan by the reaction of abundant acetylene with atomic carbon.
This view of...
Researchers from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and elsewhere have generated a chromosome-scale genome assembly for the d’Anjou pear, a...
Pudella carlae is the first living cervid species described in the 21st century and the first from the New World in over six decades.
Pudella carlae. Image...
Marine biologists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and the Centro de Investigación Científica...
Brown-and-white giant pandas are distinct coat color mutants found exclusively in the Qinling Mountains of China.
Qi Zai, the only brown panda living in...
Biologists at the University of Surrey have investigated inter-species variation in particulate matter accumulation, wash-off, and retention on ten broadleaf...
An international team of herpetologists led by New Mexico Highlands University and University of Queensland scientists has described a cryptic new species...
Sagittarius C lies just 300 light-years from Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Hundreds of thousands of...
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered and characterized a habitable zone planet orbiting the...
Sanfordiacaulis densifolia is an extinct tree species that existed between 359 and 347 million years ago (Carboniferous period) in what is now New Brunswick,...
A research team led by University of Calicut scientists has described a new species of agamid lizard from the Indian state of Kerala.
Agasthyagama edge,...
In 2013, the oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), a species of small spotted cat from the Americas, was split into two species: the northern tiger cat (Leopardus...
Tomatoes are readily available and affordable vegetables that offer a range of health benefits due to their bioactive molecules, such as antioxidants and...
Researchers from the Istituto di Genomica Applicata and elsewhere have released an improved genome assembly for Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica), a hybrid...
