The authors examined "three independent domestication events" — the precise, often long-term process by which a species ...

Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant. In fact, the wild ancestor of cultivated rice once grew primarily on the ...

A study reveals that altered expression of a key gene led to the loss of perennial traits in cultivated rice, opening ...

The story begins over nine thousand years ago, in the vast expanses of the Sahara. In Egypt then, instead of today's landscape of arid desert, the Sahara was a lush, open savannah with gazelles, ...

The idea of colonizing Mars has long been part of science fiction, but it’s increasingly being explored through real-world ...

A local archeologist highlighted thousands of years of Arkansas history and the region’s deep Indigenous connections during a ...