The sled dog Balto has been celebrated in books and movies for his role in delivering desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925....
Terbium, a chemical element with the symbol Tb and atomic number 65, has never before been seen in an exoplanet atmosphere.
This illustration shows how...
Hornets are the largest of the social wasps, and are important regulators of insect populations in their native ranges. These insects are also very successful...
Atmospheric ozone and oxygen protect the biosphere of our planet against harmful ultraviolet radiation. In new research, astronomers modeled atmospheres...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured the most detailed image yet of the young stellar object 244-440 and the bipolar jet associated...
Siren sphagnicola inhabits seepage areas in the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States.
Siren sphagnicola, an adult hypertrophic male with a partially...
Most people are familiar with South and Central America’s iconic poison dart frogs, especially the golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis), that...
The newly-discovered ultramassive black hole has a mass of 32.7 billion solar masses and resides in the center of Abell 1201 BCG, a massive elliptical...
Scientists from the Australian Museum Research Institute, the University of Sydney and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory have described...
Spiranthes hachijoensis occurs in Kyushu, Shikoku, Chubu, and Kanto districts of Japan.
Spiranthes hachijoensis in Ena-shi, Japan: (a) inflorescence; (b)...
A team of scientists from Cambodia and France has identified a new species of giant mosquito in the genus Toxorhynchites.
Toxorhynchites domrey: (A) thorax;...
X3a is approximately 10 times larger than the Sun, 15 times as massive, and is only several tens of thousands of years old.
Multiwavelength detection of...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed clumps of star formation in the tails and disks of six ram-pressure stripped (jellyfish)...
The newly-discovered species belongs to Horaglanis, a genus of rarely-collected, tiny, blind, pigment less, and strictly aquifer-residing catfish.
Horaglanis...
Scientists from the Kyoto University Museum and elsewhere have described a new species of the fish genus Coradion from Australian waters.
Coradion calendula....
Neolissochilus pnar grows to over 400 mm (1.3 feet) and occurs only in the limestone caves of Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India.
Neolissochilus...
Wolf 1069b is the sixth closest Earth-mass exoplanet situated in the conservative habitable zone of its parent star, after Proxima Centauri b, Gliese 1061d,...
Lunaemycins are produced by Streptomyces lunaelactis, a species of bacterium that inhabits the moonmilk deposits of La Grotte Des Collemboles in Belgium...
