An interdisciplinary study published in Nature reconstructs over 2,000 years of population history in Argentina's Uspallata ...

For over 350 years, quinine and other extracts from the cinchona tree (Cinchona spp.) were the only effective medicines ...

A new research chapter suggests that artificial intelligence could help tackle one of the biggest challenges social ...

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Cancer the Crab is a dim constellation, yet it contains one of the most beautiful and easy-to-spot star clusters in our sky: ...

The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a long list of strange features on this unique creature. These odd mammals also ...

Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a dramatic decline in 2015. The reasons behind this are revealed ...

You're late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realize your phone is flat. Imagine you ...

An international team led by the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has just published a ...

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For decades, astronomers have struggled to differentiate giant planets from brown dwarfs, a class of objects more massive ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that ...