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Maiopatagium furculiferum in Jurassic forest in crepuscular (dawn and dusk) light: a mother with a baby in suspending roosting posture, climbing on tree trunk, and in gliding. Image credit: April I. Neander, University of Chicago.

Gliding Proto-Mammals Lived among Jurassic Dinosaurs

Aug 11, 2017 by News Staff

Dinosaurs that roamed what is now China some 160 million years ago had two ‘flying’ neighbors — strange creatures with long limbs, long hand,...

Artist’s illustration of a four-planet system. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick, University of Warwick / Space-art.co.uk.

Four Exoplanets Detected around Nearby Star Tau Ceti

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

A multinational group of astronomers has detected four possible alien worlds circling tau Ceti, which is less than 12 light-years from our Solar System. Artist’s...

The solar eclipse petroglyph in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Image credit: J. McKim Malville, University of Colorado.

Strange Petroglyph in Chaco Canyon May Represent Ancient Total Solar Eclipse

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

A petroglyph on the south face of Piedra del Sol, a free-standing rock in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, may depict the solar corona observed during the...

The living scene of Corythoraptor jacobsi. Image credit: Zhao Chuang.

Corythoraptor jacobsi: New Species of Bird-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China

Aug 8, 2017 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of paleontologists has identified from an almost complete skeleton found in China a massive oviraptorid dinosaur with a toothless...

This image from the Keck Telescope shows an extremely bright, nearly circular storm system near Neptune’s equator. Image credit: Ned Molter & Imke de Pater, University of California, Berkeley / C. Alvarez, W. M. Keck Observatory.

Giant, Extremely Bright Storm System Spotted in Neptune’s Atmosphere

Aug 8, 2017 by News Staff

An unusually bright storm system nearly the size of Earth has been spotted in the atmosphere of Neptune, baffling researchers because it is located near...

Artist’s impression of a cloud of trapped antihydrogen atoms. Image credit: Chukman So.

Physicists Observe Hyperfine Spectrum of Antihydrogen

Aug 7, 2017 by News Staff

In a paper published in the August 3, 2017 issue of the journal Nature, physicists with the ALPHA collaboration, a multinational project based at CERN,...

Ancient Greek by Albert Kretschmer in Costumes of All Nations, 1882.

Minoans and Mycenaeans Descended from Anatolian Migrants, Ancient DNA Study Suggests

Aug 4, 2017 by News Staff

Researchers have obtained and analyzed genome sequences from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans, who lived 3,000 to 5,000 years ago and were Europe’s...

A reconstruction of Borealopelta markmitchelli indicating the stressful life it must have lived with the constant chance of being eaten. Image credit: Robert Nicholls.

Meet Borealopelta markmitchelli, ‘Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur’

Aug 3, 2017 by News Staff

An analysis of the fossilized skin of Borealopelta markmitchelli, the most well-preserved of the armored dinosaurs ever unearthed, has revealed that the...

This true color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was taken by the JunoCam imager onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft on July 10, 2017. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Björn Jónsson.

NASA Unveils True Color Close-Up of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Aug 3, 2017 by News Staff

NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this stunning photo of Jupiter’s most distinctive feature, its Great Red Spot, from orbit. This true color image of Jupiter’s...

Flaring, active regions of the Sun are highlighted in this image combining observations from several telescopes. High-energy X-rays from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) are shown in blue; low-energy X-rays from Japan’s Hinode spacecraft are green; and extreme ultraviolet light from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is yellow and red. All three telescopes captured their solar images around the same time on April 29, 2015. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / GSFC / JAXA.

Sun’s Core Rotates Nearly 4 Times Faster than Its Surface, SOHO Data Reveal

Aug 2, 2017 by News Staff

Using data from the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), solar physicists have found evidence of a type of seismic wave (gravity waves,...

Overfat prevalence categories in 30 of the most developed countries. Image credit: Maffetone et al.

Up To 90% of Men in the United States and Other Developed Countries are Overfat

Aug 1, 2017 by News Staff

The term ‘overfat’ refers to the presence of excess body fat that can impair health, even for normal weight individuals. In the U.S., New Zealand,...

Electron microscopic images (false color) of hypothalamic neural stem/progenitor cells. Right - high magnification of the outlined area on the left; arrows indicate the presence of multivescular bodies. Image credit: Zhang et al, doi: 10.1038/nature23282.

Hypothalamic Stem Cells Control Aging in Mice

Jul 31, 2017 by News Staff

In a study in mice, a research team at Albert Einstein College of Medicine has found that stem cells in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that controls...

Titan is shown in an optical-infrared (atmosphere-surface) composite from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. In a liquid methane environment, vinyl cyanide may form membranes. Image credit: B. Saxton / NRAO / AUI / NSF / NASA.

ALMA Detects Vinyl Cyanide in Atmosphere of Titan

Jul 30, 2017 by News Staff

Researchers using archival data from the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) have found evidence that molecules of vinyl cyanide, also...

The Grapes of Canaan, c. 1896-1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot. Image credit: Jewish Museum, New York.

Lebanese are Direct Descendants of Biblical Canaanites, Study Suggests

Jul 27, 2017 by News Staff

In the first study of its kind, a Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute-led team of researchers has uncovered the genetics of the ancient Canaanites and a firm...

According to Angles-Alcazar et al, up to 50% of matter in the Milky Way Galaxy may have an extragalactic origin. Image credit: NASA / JPL.

Up To 50% of Milky Way’s Matter Have Extragalactic Origin, Astrophysicists Say

Jul 27, 2017 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Northwestern University and elsewhere has discovered that — contrary to previously standard lore — up to 50% of the...

Geographic and local position of the artifact at the summit of the Lötschenpass. Image credit: Rolf Wenger, Marcel Cornelissen & Badri Redha / Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern.

Archaeologists Find Frozen Bronze Age Wooden Container with Cereal Remains in Swiss Alps

Jul 26, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have found a well-preserved Early Bronze Age wooden vessel in the Swiss Alps. The artifact could help researchers shed new light on the...

The Hoodwinker Sunfish (Mola tecta) in Reserva Marina Isla Chanaral, Chile, 2015. Image credit: Cesar Villarroel, https://vimeo.com/129499857.

Scientists Identify New Species of Ocean Sunfish: Hoodwinker Sunfish (Mola tecta)

Jul 25, 2017 by News Staff

A group of marine biologists led by Murdoch University researcher Marianne Nyegaard has identified and described an elusive new species of ocean sunfish. The...

Enigmatic Archaic Human Relative Interbred with Ancestors of Modern Africans, Study Suggests

Jul 24, 2017 by News Staff

A mysterious hominin species mated with the ancestors of modern-day Sub-Saharan Africans, according to an analysis of modern human genomes published this...

This image of the superluminous supernova DES15E2mlf was taken with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) gri-band filters mounted on the Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile on December 28, 2015, around the time when DES15E2mlf reached its peak luminosity. Image credit: D. Gerdes / S. Jouvel.

Astronomers Spot Most Distant Superluminous Supernova Yet

Jul 24, 2017 by News Staff

At a distance of 10 billion light-years, DES15E2mlf — a Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) spotted by the Dark Energy Survey collaboration —...