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 ...

The formation of the heaviest elements relies on astrophysical environments with a copious amount of neutrons. Neutrons can be found in the cosmos bound in atomic nuclei or in medium under extreme ...

“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 ...

Challenging assumptions about infant memory, a new Yale University-led study shows that infants as young as 12 months old can encode memories. The findings suggest that infantile amnesia — the ...

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 ...