Named LID-568, this 7.2-million-solar-mass black hole appears to be feeding on matter at a rate 40 times its Eddington limit and is seen as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

Dedicated to the Egyptian deity Khnum, the temple of Esna is one of the last examples of ancient Egyptian temple architecture. Only the vestibule, called the pronaos, of the original temple complex ...

A research team led by John Innes Centre scientists has sequenced and annotated the chromosome-scale genome assembly of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), a promising legume crop with tolerance to a wide ...

Archaeologists from the University of Granada say they have uncovered the remnants of the ancient Roman forum in Ubrique, Andalusia, Spain. “The main objective of the excavation was to confirm the ...

Paleontologists have found a fossilized jaw fragment and three isolated teeth from a new, relatively large (by Late Cretaceous standards) metatherian species in the layers of the Williams Fork ...

Two ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori — named ‘Hardy’ and ‘Ubiquitous’ — co-existed in the stomachs of modern humans since before they left Africa and were dispersed around the world by human ...

Daily strawberry consumption (between one and four cups per day) improves outcomes of lipid metabolism and inflammation in those at increased cardiovascular risk, according to a new review paper ...

Emiliasaura alessandrii lived in what is now Patagonia during the Valanginian age of the Early Cretaceous epoch, some 138 million years ago. “Knowing Early Cretaceous dinosaurs is critical for gaining ...

The well-studied V404 Cygni, an X-ray binary hosting a low-mass black hole, is part of a wide hierarchical triple with a tertiary companion at least 3,500 astronomical units (AU) away from the inner ...

In the study, University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas Holtz Jr. and his colleagues examined two-toed footprints produced by a small, bird-like microraptorine dinosaur moving at high speed.

The end-Triassic extinction along with the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous events are the most severe mass extinctions in the past 270 million years. The exact mechanisms of the end-Triassic extinction ...

Archaeologists in Armenia have discovered the remains of an early Christian church at the site of the ancient city of Artaxata. Artaxata, also known as Artashat, was a major city of ancient Armenia ...