The primary underlying mechanisms may involve the protective effects of these diets on blood vessels and nerves, as well as their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, according to a new ...

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

Described in a paper that appears today in the journal Nature Astronomy, the discovery means habitable exoplanets could have started forming much earlier — before the first galaxies formed and ...

Named Jeholia longchengi, the new species lived approximately 125 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch). The scorpion’s fossilized remains were recovered from dark gray mudstones of the Yixian ...

Physicists have long known that electrons can form vortices in quantum materials. What’s new is the proof that these tiny particles create tornado-like structures in momentum space. Momentum space is ...

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are the highest-energy particles in the Universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans. While the existence of ultrahigh energy ...

Papilio is a large genus of swallowtail butterflies within the family Papilionidae. The only representative of the tribe Papilionini, the genus includes about 200 scientifically recognized species.

In new lab experiments, scientists at the University of Southern California showed that when mice encountered a familiar social partner in a state of unconsciousness caused by anesthesia, they ...

The megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, is an iconic shark represented primarily by its gigantic teeth in the Neogene fossil record, but the lack of well-preserved skeletons has hampered the ...

Arp 105 is located around 400 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ursa Major. Also known as NGC 3561, it was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel on March 30, ...

Primitive amphibians called temnospondyls survived the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred about 252 million years ago, by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial ...

A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a small region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. The Small Magellanic Cloud is an elongated ...