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Researchers Find New Way to Inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Image credit: Janice Haney Carr / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Apr 7, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from the United States and Australia claim they have found a new way to inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that is the primary cause of tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Image credit: Janice Haney Carr / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The discovery held promise for the development of treatments,” said co-author Prof. James De Voss from the University of Queensland. Tuberculosis is a serious...

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Asilisaurus kongwe: in this artist’s rendering, the reptile is shown as it would walk and move about; the stripes are artistic license, although the animal’s proto-feathers are likely. Image credit: Andrey Atuchin.

Triassic Fossils Indicate How Dinosaurs Grew from Hatchlings to Adults

Apr 6, 2016 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists has found that fossilized leg bones of Asilisaurus kongwe — a dinosaur cousin that lived during the Middle Triassic epoch...

Scientists inserted a small molecule named coralyne into the DNA and were able to create a single-molecule diode, which can be used as an active element in future nanoscale circuits. Image credit: University of Georgia / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Researchers Create World’s Smallest Diode

Apr 5, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A single-molecule diode, the world’s smallest, has been created by a team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the University of...

Aquilonifer spinosus: Silurian Arthropod Kept Its Young on Tether

Apr 5, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed a fossilized arthropod that carried its young in pouches tethered to the parent’s body, like a...

The excitation of a spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice with neutrons. Image credit: Genevieve Martin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Quantum Spin Liquid: Physicists Detect New Quantum State of Matter in 2D Material

Apr 4, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Arnab Banerjee from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has found evidence of a mysterious state of matter –...

SDSS J1240+6710 (arrow). Image credit: S.O. Kepler et al / Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Astronomers Discover White Dwarf Star with Oxygen Atmosphere

Apr 1, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of astronomers led by Dr. Souza Oliveira Kepler from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is reporting the discovery of a white...

Scientist Links Earth’s Periodic Mass Extinctions to Planet Nine

Mar 31, 2016 by News Staff

According to Prof. Daniel P. Whitmire from the University of Arkansas, the suspected Planet Nine triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions on Earth...

Closeup of text on the Etruscan stele. Image credit: Mugello Valley Project.

Archaeologists Find Etruscan Stele with Rare Inscriptions

Mar 30, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has found a religious artifact with a sacred text in the Etruscan language. The 2,500-year-old Etruscan stele was...

An artist’s recreation of Giraffatitan (foreground), a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic period. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov / Gerhard Boeggemann / Sci-News.com.

Paleontologists Explain Evolution of Sauropod Dinosaurs

Mar 30, 2016 by News Staff

A large team of paleontologists led by University of Liverpool scientist Dr. Karl Bates has developed computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs...

In this stunning Saturnian vista, icy geysers erupt along narrow fractures on Enceladus. The majestic plumes were actually discovered by instruments on the Cassini Spacecraft during close encounters with bright and shiny Enceladus in 2005. Image credit: Michael Carroll / NASA.

Planetary Researchers Explain Sustained Eruptions on Enceladus

Mar 29, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Planetary researchers on NASA’s Cassini mission have published a new study describing the process that drives and sustains long-lived geysers on Enceladus,...

HD 80606b: Weird Gaseous Exoplanet Raises Questions about Origins of hot Jupiters

Mar 29, 2016 by News Staff

New observations of HD 80606b raise questions about origins of so-called hot Jupiters, a class of short-period gas giants with a mass similar to Jupiter’s,...

The waterfall climbing cave fish (Cryptotora thamicola): dorsal view, resting on the bottom of glass tank. Image credit: Daphne Soares.

Cryptotora thamicola: Cavefish Walks Like Four-Legged Creature

Mar 25, 2016 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Brooke Flammang from New Jersey Institute of Technology, has identified unique anatomical features in a...

NASA Scientists Identify Titan’s Tallest Peak

Mar 25, 2016 by News Staff

Planetary researchers with NASA’s Cassini mission have identified the highest point on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Titan’s Mithrim Montes is...

Moon (Gregory H. Revera / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Study: Moon Moved from Its Original Axis 3 Billion Years Ago

Mar 24, 2016 by News Staff

Earth’s moon wandered off its original axis about 3 billion years ago, a new study led by Southern Methodist University planetary researcher Matt Siegler...

Jupiter’s aurora. Image credit: JAXA.

Researchers Find What Causes Jupiter’s X-ray Aurora

Mar 23, 2016 by Natali Anderson

According to a study led by University College London researcher William Dunn, the solar wind is causing intense X-ray bursts over Jupiter’s polar regions. Solar...

The bright spots near the center of Occator crater are shown in enhanced color in this view from NASA’s Dawn robotic spacecraft. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / PSI / LPI.

New Images of Ceres Show Its Mysterious Bright Spots in Unprecedented Detail

Mar 22, 2016 by News Staff

Planetary researchers from NASA’s Dawn mission have released new images of the dwarf planet Ceres, including anticipated views of its intriguing ‘bright...

This view of the Martian gravity map shows the Tharsis volcanoes and surrounding flexure: the white areas in the center are higher-gravity regions produced by the massive Tharsis volcanoes, and the surrounding blue areas are lower-gravity regions that may be cracks in the crust. Image credit: MIT / UMBC-CRESST / GSFC.

NASA Scientists Release Map of Mars’ Gravity

Mar 22, 2016 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr. Antonio Genova of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a detailed new map of Mars’ gravity. This view of...

HD 20782b. Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

HD 20782b: Astronomers Discover Exoplanet with Highly Eccentric Orbit

Mar 21, 2016 by News Staff

HD 20782b’s orbit closely resembles that of a comet, making it the most eccentric planet ever known. This artist’s rendering shows HD 20782b, the most...

A pair of Boreonykus certekorum. Image credit: University of New England.

Boreonykus certekorum: Paleontologists Discover New Dinosaur Species in Canada

Mar 19, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

A new species of dromaeosaurid (raptor) dinosaur — Boreonykus certekorum — that thrived in the cold has been discovered in a remote part of...

Denisovans were probably dark-skinned, unlike the pale Neandertals. The picture shows a Neanderthal man. Image credit: Mauro Cutrona.

Denisovan DNA Found in Modern-Day Melanesians

Mar 18, 2016 by News Staff

Residents of the Pacific islands of Melanesia share fragments of genetic code with two early human species: Denisovans, whose remains were found in Siberia,...

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