Thousands of years ago, people in South America began domesticating Solanum pimpinellifolium, a weedy plant with…
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Mapping stellar nurseries in the Milky Way
An international team of Astronomers from the Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN) identified nearly 120,000 new young stellar…
Noble False Widow spider bite can transmit harmful antibiotic resistant bacteria to humans
A team of zoologists and microbiologists from NUI Galway have published a new study showing that…
European colonization accelerated erosion tenfold
Rates of soil erosion and alluvium accumulation in North America accelerated 10-fold after Europeans colonized the…
How politics drive our personal relationships – and even where we live
The 2020 presidential election again laid bare the divisions that separate people in the United States.…
Octogenarian snapper found in WA becomes oldest tropical reef fish by two decades
An 81-year-old midnight snapper caught off the coast of Western Australia has taken the title of…
Chinese probe lands on Moon to collect lunar samples
A Chinese probe sent to the Moon to bring back the first lunar samples in four…
We've mapped a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Take the virtual tour here.
Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most…
'Sabre-toothed tiger' skeleton up for auction
A nearly 40-million-year-old skeleton belonging to what is popularly known as a sabre-toothed tiger is going…
Genomics, gene-editing and the Blue Revolution
Aquaculture—the farming of fish and shellfish, is the world’s fastest growing primary industry. It provides a…