Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a single maternal lineage that diverged after dogs entered North ...

The 2,600-year-old stone relief was unearthed at the archaeological site of Nineveh in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. Nineveh was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian ...

Microplastics are new, emerging contaminants that are becoming detrimental to aquatic environments on a global scale. These water-insoluble, solid polymers less than 5 mm in size originate from the ...

“Nobody had really considered the possibility of convection in the crust of Venus before,” said Washington University in St. Louis Professor Slava Solomatov. “Our calculations suggest that convection ...

“Curiosity’s primary scientific goal is to quantitatively assess the habitability potential of Mars, past or present,” said Dr. Caroline Freissinet, a researcher with CNRS and the Laboratoire ...

New images from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) reveal the Universe when it was about 380,000 years old. The new ACT pictures of the so-called Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) add higher ...

A team of geologists from Curtin University has discovered unequivocal evidence for a hypervelocity meteorite impact 3.47 billion years ago (Archean Eon) in the center of the Pilbara region in Western ...

Depression is a widespread and debilitating condition, affecting more than 280 million individuals worldwide. The precise causes of depression are unknown, and treatment is often ineffective. Seventy ...

As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium. These encounters can expose parts of the Solar System to the ...