The grapevine genome, the first from a fruit crop, was presented in 2007 by a French-Italian team. The results revealed that the vine (Vitis vinifera, that of the Pinot noir grape) contains more than twice as many genes involved in the production of…

To improve their position in the hierarchy, many ape species have to make pacts between individuals to gain power.

During these days we are visited by comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura), which crossed the Earth's orbit on August 15, three days after being discovered, and whose closest point to Earth will be this Wednesday, when it will be at about 127,000,000…

In 2019, two studies combining data from the Hubble, Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes detected a significant amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of K2-18b, an exoplanet about 120 light years away, between …