Sea snakes have been adapting to see underwater for 15 million years

Sea snakes first entered the marine environment 15 million years ago and have been evolving ever…

4,000 years of contact, conflict and cultural change had little genetic impact in Near East

The Near East was a crossroad for the ancient world’s greatest civilizations, and invasions over centuries…

Genomic analysis shows long-term genetic mixing in West Asia before world's first cities

New research on one history’s most important trading hubs provides some of the earliest genetic glimpses…

Indonesia starts cloud seeding to keep forest fires at bay

Indonesia has started cloud seeding to induce rain as the archipelago moves to head off annual…

AAPI History Month: Rene A. Holland

Rene A. Holland’s family is from the Philippines and she grew up with a healthy respect…

A single proton can make a world of difference

Scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science and collaborators have shown that knocking out…

Floods and tears in Bangladesh a week after cyclone

Rezaul Islam wades through waist-high water, a sack of rice on his head salvaged from what…

Italy unearths Roman mosaic after century-long hunt

Archaeologists have discovered an exquisitely preserved Roman mosaic under a vineyard in northern Italy after a…

New technique offers higher resolution molecular imaging and analysis

A Northwestern University research team has developed a new method to conduct spectroscopic nanoscopy, an approach…

Imagining Another Earth

This artist’s concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. Click…