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 2,600-year-old stone relief was unearthed at the archaeological site of Nineveh in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. Nineveh was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian ...

Microplastics are new, emerging contaminants that are becoming detrimental to aquatic environments on a global scale. These water-insoluble, solid polymers less than 5 mm in size originate from the ...

“Nobody had really considered the possibility of convection in the crust of Venus before,” said Washington University in St. Louis Professor Slava Solomatov. “Our calculations suggest that convection ...

“Curiosity’s primary scientific goal is to quantitatively assess the habitability potential of Mars, past or present,” said Dr. Caroline Freissinet, a researcher with CNRS and the Laboratoire ...

A team of geologists from Curtin University has discovered unequivocal evidence for a hypervelocity meteorite impact 3.47 billion years ago (Archean Eon) in the center of the Pilbara region in Western ...

As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium. These encounters can expose parts of the Solar System to the ...