Oct 29, 2021 by News Staff

Using the Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) at the Gemini South Observatory on Cerro Pachon, Chile, astronomers have measured carbon-to-hydrogen...

Oct 29, 2021 by News Staff

CW Leonis, which is located 400 light-years away in the constellation of Leo, is a carbon star — a luminous type of red giant star with a carbon-rich...

Oct 29, 2021 by News Staff

New research demonstrates that two common, widespread, and endemic Patagonian bird species — the chucao tapaculo (Scelorchilus rubecula) and the...

Oct 29, 2021 by News Staff

Homo bodoensis lived in Africa during the early Middle Pleistocene, around 500,000 years ago, and was the direct ancestor of the Homo sapiens lineage;...

Oct 28, 2021 by News Staff

Variations in the brightness of light seen from around a stellar-mass black hole in the binary system MAXI J1820+070 were caused by a huge warp in its...

Oct 28, 2021 by News Staff

Pterosaurs reached only modest sizes in the Triassic and Jurassic periods. By contrast, the Cretaceous period saw a trend toward large to giant size (2...

Oct 28, 2021 by News Staff

The Shelley’s eagle owl (Bubo shelleyi) was photographed by Imperial College London researcher Joseph Tobias and freelance ecologist Robert Williams...

Oct 28, 2021 by News Staff

The newly-discovered protocluster, named PHz G237.01+42.50 (G237 for short), contains over 60 members, including blue star-forming galaxies and active...

Oct 28, 2021 by News Staff

While most mammals are drab browns and grays, there are a small number of well-known and intriguing exceptions. Perhaps the most famous of all is the giant...

Oct 27, 2021 by News Staff

NASA has released an incredibly beautiful image of a nebula, a cloud of gas and dust captured by the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope. This image from...

Oct 27, 2021 by Natali Anderson

The newly-identified species, named the Ramari’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon eueu), occurs throughout temperate southern hemisphere waters, with reports...

Oct 27, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Green tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages worldwide. Green tea catechins are associated with a delay in aging. In experiments performed in...

Oct 27, 2021 by News Staff

An amethyst gemstone seal from the Second Temple period has a unique engraving: a bird and a branch with five fruits, according to the Israel Antiquities...

Oct 27, 2021 by News Staff

A lemur species called Indri indri displays, in its coordinated songs, the isochronous and 1:2 rhythm categories seen in human music, showing that such...

Oct 26, 2021 by News Staff

Using a revolutionary technology known as LiDAR (laser imaging, detection and ranging), an international team of archaeologists has discovered 478 rectangular...

Oct 26, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University and University College London has decoded the genome of...

Oct 26, 2021 by Natali Anderson

In 2019, astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project observed Proxima Centauri using CSIRO’s Parkes ‘Murriyang’ radio telescope. They detected...

Oct 26, 2021 by News Staff

A Hox gene, a major developmental gene that regulates the identity of structures on the segments of black-tailed bumblebees (Bombus melanopygus), turns...

Oct 26, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have imaged the innermost regions of the compact intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5248. This image from...

Oct 25, 2021 by News Staff

A Type II core-collapse supernova called SN 2020fqv exploded in NGC 4568, a member of a pair of colliding unbarred spiral galaxies; the other member of...