Science

Eating 50 grams of walnuts mixed into muesli and yoghurt led to faster reaction times throughout the day and better memory performance later in the day when compared to eating...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of a small fraction of the Veil Nebula, which is part of a supernova remnant called the Cygnus Loop. The...

Meet Xingxiulong yueorum, a new species of early-diverging sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Jurassic epoch. The post Paleontologists Discover New Species of Sauropodomorph...

Biologists have discovered a new species -- and redescribed another one -- of the tree frog genus Litoria living on the Australian continent. The post New Species of Tree Frog...

Paleontologists have found the 4.9-million-year-old (Early Pliocene) fossilized remains of the extinct flying squirrel Miopetaurista webbi in Tennessee, the United States. The post Giant Flying Squirrels Once Lived in North...

Called ferrihydrite, this iron mineral formed during a cold, wet period on early Mars under oxidative conditions, followed by a transition to the current hyper-arid environment. The post Water-Rich Iron...

As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium. The post Our Solar System Crossed ‘Radcliffe Wave’ during Miocene Epoch,...

Using data gathered by China’s Zhurong rover, planetary researchers have identified hidden layers of rock under the Martian surface that strongly suggest the presence of an ancient northern ocean. The...

Scientists have produced the first chromosome-scale genome assembly of the white oak (Quercus alba), an abundant forest tree species across eastern North America that is ecologically, culturally, and economically important....

New research led by Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology scientists challenges conventional ideas about the habitability of ancient tropical forests and suggests that West Africa may have been an important...