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Astronomers Observe Feeding Habits of Active Black Hole

Abell 2597 BCG. Image credit: NRAO / AUI / NSF / Dana Berry / SkyWorks / ALMA / ESO / NAOJ.
Jun 8, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers have witnessed a cosmic weather event that has never been seen before — a cluster of giant gas clouds raining in on the supermassive black hole at the center of a very distant giant elliptical galaxy. Abell 2597 BCG: the background image (blue) is from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope; the foreground (red) is ALMA data showing the distribution of carbon monoxide gas in and around the galaxy; the pull-out box shows the ALMA data...

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Archerfish (Toxotes chatareus). Image credit: Esquilo / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Study Shows Fish Can Recognize Human Faces

Jun 7, 2016 by News Staff

The archerfish (Toxotes chatareus), a species of freshwater tropical fish, can recognize individual people’s faces, shows a new study published in the...

Neanderthal. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum.

Neanderthals Left Humans Genetic Burden, Scientists Say

Jun 6, 2016 by News Staff

The genome of Neanderthals contained harmful gene variants that made them around 40 percent less reproductively fit than modern humans. And non-Africans...

Man’s best friend may have been domesticated from distinct wolf populations on either side of the Old World. Image credit: Pixel-mixer.

New Study Suggests Dual Origin of Domestic Dogs

Jun 3, 2016 by News Staff

Dogs may have been domesticated independently in Asia and Europe from two separate wolf populations, according to a new study led by the University of...

Radio image (top), made with the VLA, and optical image (bottom) made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The radio image shows the complex upwellings and downwellings of ammonia gas 18-56 miles (30-90 km) below the visible clouds. Image credit: Imke de Pater et al / NRAO / AUI / NSF / NASA / ESA.

VLA Radio Maps Reveal What’s Beneath Jupiter’s Thick Clouds

Jun 3, 2016 by News Staff

Scientists using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have produced detailed radio maps of Jupiter’s...

Cosmic distance ladder. Image credit: NASA /ESA / A. Field, STScI / A. Riess, STScI & JHU.

Universe is Expanding Faster than Previously Thought

Jun 2, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding between 5% and 9% faster than previously calculated. Cosmic...

An Austronesian village showing several traditional houses, 1893. Image credit: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ancient Crops Help Solve Puzzle of Madagascar’s Southeast Asian Settlement

Jun 1, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides the first archaeological evidence for an early Southeast Asian presence...

Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: Nick Risinger.

Milky Way Galaxy Has Mass of 700 Billion Suns, Canadian Astronomers Say

Jun 1, 2016 by News Staff

What is the total mass of our Milky Way Galaxy? The short answer, so far, is 7 x 1011 solar masses, says a team of astronomers at McMaster University,...

Emission nebula RCW 120. Image credit: ESA / Herschel / PACS / SPIRE / Hi-GAL Project / G. Li Causi, IAPS / INAF.

Herschel Maps Reveal Star-Forming Hubs across Milky Way’s Galactic Plane

May 31, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers from ESA’s Herschel mission have released a series of stunning maps of star-forming regions in the Milky Way’s Galactic plane. The emission...

Conception Bank silver boa. Image credit: Alberto R. Puente-Rolon.

Silver Boa: Scientists Discover New Snake Species in Bahamas

May 29, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers led by Dr. Graham Reynolds from the University of North Carolina Asheville has discovered a new species of non-venomous boid snake...

Malleodectes mirabilis. Image credit: Peter Schouten.

Malleodectidae: Extinct Family of Snail-Eating Marsupials Discovered

May 27, 2016 by News Staff

Fossil remains of a previously unknown group of snail-eating marsupials that lived in Australia between 10 and 15 million years ago have been discovered...

General view of the main Bruniquel Cave structure (structure A below) with superposed layers of aligned Stalagmites. Image credit: E. Fabre, SSAC.

Early Neanderthals Built Stalagmite Ring-Like Structures 176,500 Years Ago

May 26, 2016 by Natali Anderson

An international team of archaeologists working in Bruniquel Cave in France has identified mysterious ring-like constructions that were built by early...

This artist’s impression shows a possible seed for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Image credit: NASA / CXC / M. Weiss.

NASA Telescopes Spot Two Black Hole Seeds in Early Universe

May 24, 2016 by News Staff

Using data from three of NASA’s space observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers...

Cephalopods Thrive in World’s Oceans

May 24, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, cephalopods’ numbers have increased in the world’s oceans over the past six decades. Giant...

A reconstruction of Homo naledi’s head by paleoartist John Gurche, who spent some 700 hours recreating the head from bone scans. The find was announced by the University of the Witwatersrand, the National Geographic Society and the South African National Research Foundation and published in the journal eLife. Image credit: John Gurche / Mark Thiessen / National Geographic.

Homo naledi, Galapagos Tortoise in ESF’s Top 10 New Species 2015

May 23, 2016 by News Staff

Taxonomy experts at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) selected the top 10 from among the estimated 18,000 new species named...

Hubble photo of Mars taken when the planet was 50 million miles (80 million km) from Earth on May 12. The photo reveals details as small as 20 - 30 miles (32.2 - 48.3 km) across. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA / J. Bell, ASU / M. Wolff, Space Science Institute.

Hubble Team Releases Stunning New Image of Mars

May 20, 2016 by News Staff

On May 12, 2016, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this incredible photo of Mars, when the planet...

An artist’s rendering of Spiclypeus shipporum. Image credit: Mike Skrepnick.

Spiclypeus shipporum: New Dinosaur Species Identified in Montana

May 19, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A new species of ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered a decade ago in the Judith River Formation in Montana. An artist’s...

A Masai giraffe in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Image credit: Sajjad F. / CC BY 3.0.

Genome Reveals Clues to Giraffe’s Unique Characteristics

May 18, 2016 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genomes of the giraffe and its closest living relative, the okapi, and — through comparative...

The four MMS spacecraft -- shown here in an artist’s concept -- have made more than 4,000 trips through the boundaries of Earth’s magnetic field. Image credit: NASA / Goddard / Conceptual Image Lab.

NASA’s MMS Spacecraft Capture Magnetic Reconnection in Action

May 16, 2016 by News Staff

The four spacecraft of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) have flown through the heart of a magnetic process that controls Earth’s space...

Paleo-Indians hunting a glyptodont, a relative of the armadillo that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. By Heinrich Harder, 1920.

Evidence of Pre-Clovis Occupation in Southeastern US Discovered

May 16, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Stone tools and butchered (or scavenged) mastodon bones found at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, show ancient humans lived in the southeastern United States...

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