Archaeological evidence from the Canary Islands suggests that by the 11th century, people there were harvesting and ...

Most people have seen nylon listed as a material on their clothing tags, but nylon is used in an array of other products, too, including automotive parts, wire insulation and medical supplies.

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published ...

Archaeologists digging at an Inca site on the arid coast of southern Peru have unearthed two rare, roughly 500-year-old ...

Some barley beers labeled "gluten-free" contain small amounts of gluten residues that may trigger celiac disease but are not detected by the standard antibody-based tests currently in use, according ...

A new study reveals that, for the first time, areas of Canada's boreal peatlands damaged by oil and gas exploration have failed to recover as scientists and companies predicted and instead have led to ...

Early biological systems likely relied on RNA molecules to copy themselves and drive simple chemical reactions. Any system that could generate guanosine-triphosphate (GTP)—which is necessary for RNA ...

Engineers often treat impurities as a problem to eliminate to improve material performance. But new research from Osaka ...

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. A paper describing these new findings was ...

Digital matching platforms—from professional networking to ride-sharing and accommodation services—add value by bringing ...

When a star dies, it generates an explosion of elemental nuclei and hurls them into space. Those elements, called cosmic rays ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio astronomy frontier. A hydroxyl megamaser is a ...