Interbreeding between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 8-9 million years ago gave rise to the modern-day potato (Solanum tuberosum).

New research led by University of Hawai’i astronomers suggests our Universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly.

The poorly understood ‘matalafi’ -- the homogenate of Psychotria insularum leaves (fresh leaf juice) -- is widely used in Samoan traditional medicine.

An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has found ancient human and animal footprints on the surface of an ancient lakebed in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia.

The restoration of an ancient Egyptian temple in Esna, located about 60 km south of the ancient capital of Luxor in Egypt, has uncovered the original colors of the temple inscriptions and images, and ...

The ‘quantum hair’ allows information from behind the horizon to emerge in Hawking radiation, so that an evaporating black hole obeys a property called quantum unitarity.