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Mars’ Eridania Basin Once Held Vast Sea

Oct 9, 2017 by News Staff

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified what appear to be ancient hydrothermal deposits in the Eridania region in the southern highlands of Mars. The deposits would represent the remains of a vast inland sea that existed 3.7 billion years ago, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications. The Eridania basin of southern Mars is believed to have held a sea about 3.7 billion years ago, with seafloor deposits likely...

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The surgical glue MeTro is applied directly to the wound and activated with light. Image credit: University of Sydney.

New Human Protein-Based Surgical Glue Seals Wounds in 60 Seconds

Oct 9, 2017 by News Staff

A biocompatible and highly elastic hydrogel sealant can effectively seal wounds in shape-shifting tissues without the need for common staples or sutures,...

Ieldraan melkshamensis -- nicknamed the Melksham Monster after the town where it was unearthed -- closely resembled the species shown in this artist’s impression (Plesiosuchus manselii), which also belongs to the Geosaurini group. Image credit: Fabio Manucci.

Paleontologists Identify New Species of Prehistoric Marine Crocodile: Ieldraan melkshamensis

Oct 6, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of marine reptile that lived about 163 million years ago (Middle Jurassic epoch) has been identified from a fossil found near Melksham, Wiltshire,...

Freon-40 discovered by ALMA around the infant stars in the IRAS 16293-2422 system. Image credit: B. Saxton / NRAO / AUI / NSF / NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA.

Freon-40 Detected around Protostars and Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Oct 6, 2017 by News Staff

Using data gathered by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA)...

Raccoon (Procyon lotor). Image credit: StockSnap.

Raccoons Solve Aesop’s ‘Crow and Pitcher’ Puzzle

Oct 6, 2017 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Animal Cognition demonstrates that raccoons (Procyon lotor) are able to learn to solve complex problems and that they...

Artist’s illustration showing a massive exoplanet falling into its host star -- one of the possible explanations for the strange dimming of KIC 8462852. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Alfred Vidal-Madjar, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS.

Mysterious Star KIC 8462852 Continues to Baffle Astronomers

Oct 5, 2017 by News Staff

A star about 1,480 light-years from Earth called KIC 8462852 has been a fascinating mystery since its discovery was made public in September 2015. Astronomers...

This Hubble image shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away. The cluster’s gravitational field is warping light from background galaxies, causing them to appear as arcs. Dark matter in Abell 1689, which represents about 80% of its mass, is mapped by plotting these arcs. Image credit: NASA / ESA / JPL-Caltech / Yale / CNRS.

Researchers Find Evidence of Dynamical Dark Energy

Oct 3, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of researchers led by University of Portsmouth Professor Gong-Bo Zhao has found that the nature of dark energy may not be the cosmological...

Paranthropus boisei. Image credit: © Roman Yevseyev.

‘Nutcracker Man’ Gave Us Genital Herpes, Study Says

Oct 3, 2017 by News Staff

New research from the University of Cambridge and Oxford Brookes University predicts which species acted as an intermediary between the ancestors of Homo...

Artist’s conception of MAVEN’s Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph (IUVS) observing Martian aurora, which is similar to Earth’s Aurora borealis but has a different origin. Image credit: University of Colorado.

NASA: Recent Solar Storm Sparked Global Aurora on Mars

Oct 2, 2017 by News Staff

A solar event on September 11, 2017 sparked a global aurora on the Red Planet more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars...

A pair of thylacines, a male and female, c. 1905. Image credit: Smithsonian Institutional Archives / E. J. Keller, National Zoological Park.

Ancient DNA Study Sheds New Light on History of Tasmanian Tigers

Sep 29, 2017 by News Staff

A new study led by University of Adelaide researcher Jeremy Austin traces the history of Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) populations over the last 30,000 years. A...

Comet C/2017 K2: Hubble Spots Rare Visitor from Oort Cloud

Sep 29, 2017 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS). The comet’s orbit indicates...

Physicists Catch Fourth Gravitational Wave: GW170814

Sep 28, 2017 by News Staff

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and...

This is an illustration of Uromys vika. Image credit: Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum.

Uromys vika: New Species of Tree-Dwelling Giant Rat Found in Solomon Islands

Sep 27, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new rodent species with an unusual lifestyle has been discovered on Vangunu — an island, part of the New Georgia Islands in the Solomon Islands...

The smiley-faced spider Spintharus berniesandersi is named after U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. Image credit: Glynnis Fawkes.

Fifteen New Species of ‘Smiley-Faced’ Spiders Discovered

Sep 26, 2017 by News Staff

A team of spider experts and students from the University of Vermont has discovered and described 15 new species of the spider genus Spintharus from the...

Gliese 3942b: Super-Earth Found Orbiting Nearby Star

Sep 25, 2017 by Natali Anderson

Dr. Manuel Perger, a postdoctoral researcher at Spain’s Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), and colleagues have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet...

Wild male and female Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Image credit: Per Harald Olsen / CC BY 3.0.

Guppies Have Complex Personalities, New Study Shows

Sep 25, 2017 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the University of Exeter, UK, studied how Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) behaved in various situations and found complex...

At the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, cosmic rays have been detected from far off galaxies. Image credit: A. Chantelauze / S. Staffi / L. Bret / Pierre Auger Observatory.

Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Have Extragalactic Origins

Sep 22, 2017 by News Staff

For the first time, astrophysicists have confirmed that cosmic rays with ultra-high energies come from outside our Milky Way Galaxy. At the Pierre Auger...

Palaeolenus lantenoisi showing evidence of crop, digestive glands, alimentary canal along thorax, and excreted waste posterior to pygidium. Scale bar - 5 mm. Image credit: Hopkins et al, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184982.

Study: Earliest Trilobites Had Stomachs

Sep 22, 2017 by News Staff

Exceptionally well-preserved trilobite fossils from the Cambrian Wulongqing Formation near Guangwei Village in southern Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan...

Hubble Spots Unusual Binary Asteroid in Main Belt

Sep 21, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted an unusual object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting...

South American horned frog showing round shape and large mouth. Image credit: Kristopher Lappin.

Giant Prehistoric Frogs Ate Small Dinosaurs, Claim Scientists

Sep 20, 2017 by News Staff

Exceptionally large individuals of Beelzebufo ampinga, an extinct species of frog that lived in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 68 million...

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