Corn is a colossal grain in the global food and feed chain, with the U.S. producing roughly 30% of the world's supply, or ...

Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest, ...

A few days ago, I was invited to take part in the Nul-Ding Kût Festival, organised by the Biate Cultural Organisation of Meghalaya in Saipung. Nul-Ding Kût, or the “Festival of Renewal of Life”, is ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Perspective is everything, as they say. Most of the time, you can only truly appreciate something by checking how that particular object fits within your existing knowledge. Comparing it with slightly ...

Researchers compared thousands of images of raccoons from iNaturalist, a website where users post images of flora and fauna, based on location. They found that raccoons photographed in urban areas in ...

A little-understood ancient people in Mexico first discovered corn's older cousin, teosinte, and began the breeding process to develop it into today's corn. (Jesse Gardner/Unsplash) It’s not hyperbole ...

If raccoons are wild animals, why are they so darn cute? If that’s a question you’ve ever asked yourself while looking at a picture of the furry urban dwellers with their beady eyes and tiny paws, you ...

That resourceful "trash panda" digging through your garbage may be more than just a nuisance -- it could be a living example of evolution in progress. A new study suggests that raccoons living near ...

(Reuters) -Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with people around the world. But despite their popularity as pets, the ...

Biologists at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock analyzed images of urban and rural raccoons and found that city-dwelling raccoons have noticeably shorter snouts, a classic marker of early ...

Raccoons have faces that perhaps only a mother could love, but their features seem to be changing, biologists report. After combing through nearly 20,000 images of the so-called “trash pandas” ...