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 unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on NASA balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect ...

Determining by means of paleography the chronology of ancient handwritten manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls is essential for reconstructing the evolution of ideas, but there is an almost ...

The ancient stone relief depicts Ashurbanipal, the ruler of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 699 to 631 BCE, two deities and other figures, according to a team of archeologists from Heidelberg University.

University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson proposes a new way to think about gravity -- not just as a pull, but as something that happens when the Universe is trying to stay organized.

The Sample Analysis at Mars instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected decane, undecane, and dodecane molecules in a sample from Gale crater.