Scientists at the University of Florida have generated the chromosome-scale genome assembly for the primocane-fruiting, thornless tetraploid blackberry BL1. Their results should provide a valuable ...

University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson proposes a new way to think about gravity — not just as a pull, but as something that happens when the Universe is trying to stay organized. The ...

Challenging assumptions about infant memory, a new Yale University-led study shows that infants as young as 12 months old can encode memories. The findings suggest that infantile amnesia — the ...

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 ...

Eating 50 grams of walnuts mixed into muesli and yoghurt led to faster reaction times throughout the day and better memory performance later in the day when compared to eating an equivalent ...

“This is a significant shift in how we think about the history of life,” said Penn State’s Professor Jennifer Macalady. “It suggests that the evolution of complex life may be less about luck and more ...

The authors suggest that at least four hominin species — Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo longi, and the newly-established Homo juluensis — were present in eastern Asia during the Late ...