Australopithecus sediba — a small hominin species that lived about 2 million years ago — had a mix of ape-like and human-like features, while Homo naledi — a recently-discovered hominin species that ...

This mutation is located in the Rho GTPase Activating Protein 36 (Arhgap36) gene and appears to occur in no other mammal, according to a research team led by Stanford University School of Medicine ...

The Sun rarely produced extreme solar particle events, orders of magnitude stronger than everything directly observed. Their enormous power can greatly distort the production of cosmogenic isotopes, e ...

Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope, astronomers found evidence of cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Titan. Most of Titan’s lakes and ...

Naturally occurring compounds called flavan-3-ols — found in cocoa, tea, apples and grapes — may improve blood pressure and the health of our blood vessels, according to a new meta-analysis of 145 ...

Water ice heavily influences the formation of giant planets and may also be delivered by comets to fully formed rocky planets. Using data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA ...