Quercetin and 3,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHBA), phytonutrients commonly found in apples, may help stimulate the production of new brain cells, according...
An international team of scientists has sequenced and analyzed DNA from three mammoth specimens, two of which are more than one million years old. The...
A team of archaeologists from DigVentures has uncovered the remains of at least 15 roundhouses dating from 400 to 100 BCE and the remains of a large Roman...
The source of hydrogen chloride (HCl) in the atmosphere of Mars is recent surface volcanism, subsurface magmatic activity, or aerosol chemistry occurring...
Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a polyphenol found in the leaves of green tea (Camellia sinensis), may increase levels of the natural anti-cancer protein...
At the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago, a 10-km impactor crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what...
The obverse of the 1,800-year-old bronze coin bears the head of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius.
The 1,800-year-old Roman bronze coin. Image credit: Nir...
A marine biologist from Scripps Institution of Oceanography has discovered a new species of chaenopsid blenny in the waters around Cocos Island (Isla del...
Archaeologists have found Venetian glass trade beads at three prehistoric Inuit sites in Alaska. In the absence of trans-Atlantic communication, the most...
A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Canada has sequenced the genome of the white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator), a medium-sized New World...
Higher intake of caffeinated coffee was found to be associated with reduced risk of heart failure in three large, well-known heart disease studies: the...
ALESS 073.1, a star-forming galaxy located 12.5 billion light-years away, has all of the features expected of a much more mature galaxy and has led astronomers...
Astronomers have detected lithium in the atmospheres of four cool and old white dwarfs, of which one also displayed atmospheric potassium. The relative...
About 18,000 years ago, the Magdalenian occupants of Marsoulas Cave in what is now France transformed a shell of the predatory sea snail Charonia lampas...
Named a swirlonic state, the newly-discovered state of active matter is comprised of swirlons, formed by groups of active quasiparticles orbiting their...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence for dozens of stellar-mass black holes lurking in the core-collapsed, globular...
Nicknamed ‘Farfarout’ and officially designated 2018 AG37, the newly-confirmed planetoid has a very elongated orbit that takes it out to 175 AU (astronomical...
NASA has released a photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a small region on the edge of the dark nebula Caldwell 99.
This Hubble image...
Using a newly developed system for mid-infrared exoplanet imaging, astronomers from the Breakthrough Watch Initiative say they can now use ground-based...
An international team of geoscientists has created the first continuous full-plate model with evolving plate boundaries spanning one billion year ago to...
