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Webb’s First Full-Color Images Released

Jul 12, 2022 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope mission today released its first full-color scientific images and spectroscopic data. An artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA. Webb, a major space observatory often presented as the successor to the very successful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is designed to answer fundamental questions about the Universe. It honors NASA’s second administrator, James E. Webb, who...

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This Webb image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI.

Webb Reveals Deepest View of Universe Yet

Jul 12, 2022 by News Staff

Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, the new image shows the massive galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327. This Webb image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327....

Reconstruction of a pair of Stanleycaris hirpex. Image credit: Sabrina Cappelli, Royal Ontario Museum.

Three-Eyed Cambrian Animal Sheds Light on Origin of Arthropod Head and Segmentation

Jul 11, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum have examined 268 specimens of Stanleycaris hirpex — a radiodont that...

Life reconstruction of Balhuticaris voltae. Image credit: Hugo Salais.

Cambrian Bivalved Arthropod Had Extremely Multisegmented Body

Jul 8, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Balhuticaris voltae is the largest bivalved arthropod to date, at almost double the size of the previous record-holder, Nereocaris exilis. Life reconstruction...

Citizen Scientist Discovers 34 New Ultracool Brown Dwarfs

Jul 8, 2022 by News Staff

Using data from the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC) DR2, citizen scientist Frank Kiwy has discovered 34 new M-, L-, or T-type dwarfs comoving with low-mass...

New Giant Carnivorous Dinosaur Unearthed in Argentina

Jul 7, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Meraxes gigas, a huge meat-eating dinosaur that lived in Argentina some 94 million years ago, had short arms like Tyrannosaurus rex. Meraxes gigas. Image...

Electron vortices could be leveraged for next-gen low-power electronics. Image credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT.

Physicists Directly Observe Vortices in Electron Fluid

Jul 6, 2022 by News Staff

An international team of physicists has observed electrons flowing in vortices — a hallmark of fluid flow that theorists predicted electrons should...

305-Million-Year-Old Fossil is Oldest Known Tree-Climbing Reptile

Jul 6, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of varanopid eupelycosaur that lived during the Carboniferous period — the oldest tree-climbing reptile on record —...

The strange pentaquark PΛψs(4338)0, illustrated here as a pair of standard hadrons loosely bound in a molecule-like structure, is made up of a charm quark and a charm antiquark and an up, a down and a strange quark. Image credit: CERN.

CERN Physicists Discover Three New Exotic Particles

Jul 5, 2022 by News Staff

Physicists from the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced today the observation of a strange...

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New Species of Giant Waterlily Identified

Jul 5, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Victoria boliviana marks the first discovery of a giant waterlily species in over a century and breaks the record as the largest in the world. Wild population...

2020 CD3 is estimated to be only between one and six meters across. Image credit: Jonny Lindner.

Huge All-Season Ozone Hole Discovered over Tropics

Jul 5, 2022 by News Staff

University of Waterloo’s Professor Qing-Bin Lu has discovered a large, all-season ozone hole in the lower stratosphere over the tropics (30 deg N –...

Sagittarius B2 is a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust that is located about 390 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Sagittarius B2 is the bright orange-red region to the middle left of the image, which is centered on the Galactic center. Image credit: ESO / APEX / MSX / IPAC / NASA.

ALMA Detects Interstellar Propanol and Its Isomer in Milky Way’s Center

Jul 5, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected two complex organic molecules — isopropanol (i-C3H7OH) and...

In 2012, physicists from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN announced the discovery of a new boson looking very much like the Higgs boson. Image credit: Daniel Dominguez / CERN.

CERN Physicists Release Most Up-To-Date Results on Higgs Boson’s Properties

Jul 4, 2022 by News Staff

On July 4, 2012, physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the observation of a Higgs boson at a mass...

This image shows the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Pegasus V (center). Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab / D. de Martin, NSF’s NOIRLab.

Pegasus V: New Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Spotted in Outskirts of Andromeda

Jul 1, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Pegasus and characterized it using deep imaging with the Gemini Multi-Object...

Miocene-Period Giant Panda Already Had Enigmatic Extra ‘Thumb’

Jun 30, 2022 by News Staff

Of the many peculiarities that enable the modern giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) to adapt to life as a bamboo eater, its extra ‘thumb’ is the...

Lower pitchers of Nepenthes pudica under a moss mat. Image credit: Dančák et al., doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.201.82872.

Meet Nepenthes pudica, Carnivorous Plant that Produces Underground Traps

Jun 30, 2022 by Sergio Prostak

Nepenthes pudica, a new species of pitcher plant from the lower montane rainforests of North Kalimantan, Indonesia, produces well-developed, fully functional...

An artist’s impression of Nombe nombe (right) and other prehistoric animals from Nombe Rockshelter, Papua New Guinea. Image credit: Peter Shouten.

Giant Kangaroos Lived in Papua New Guinea during Pleistocene

Jun 30, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have redescribed an extinct species of giant kangaroo that lived the mountains of Papua New Guinea about 50,000 to 20,000 years ago and...

SEM image of the carbon crystals in the Chelyabinsk meteoritic dust. Image credit: Taskaev et al., doi: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-02768-7.

Scientists Find Exotic Carbon Microcrystals in Chelyabinsk Meteoritic Dust

Jun 28, 2022 by Natali Anderson

When a space body enters Earth’s atmosphere, its surface is exposed to high pressure and temperatures. The airflow tears off small droplets from the...

Single filament of Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica. Image credit: Jean-Marie Volland.

Newly-Discovered Species of Bacterium is Visible to Naked Eye

Jun 24, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Cells of most bacterial species are around 2 micrometers in length, with some of the largest specimens reaching 750 micrometers. The newly-discovered species,...

Schematic illustration of the quasi-elastic reaction investigated by Duer et al. Top: quasi-elastic scattering of the helium-4 (4He) core from a helium-8 (8He) projectile off a proton target in the laboratory frame. The length of the arrows represents the momentum per nucleon (the velocity) of the incoming and outgoing particles. Zbeam is the beam axis. Bottom: the equivalent p-4He elastic scattering in their center-of-mass frame, where we consider reactions at backward angles close to 180°. In this frame, the momentum of the proton balances that of 4He, Pp=−P4He, that is, the proton is four times faster than 4He. Image credit: Duer et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04827-6.

Physicists Observe Elusive Four-Neutron System: Tetraneutron

Jun 23, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Physicists using the Superconducting Analyzer for Multi-particles from Radio Isotope Beams (SAMURAI) in Japan have experimentally observed a resonance-like...

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