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SPHERE Directly Images Wide-Orbit Gas Giant in Nearby Binary System

An artist’s impression of b Centauri b and its host stars. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada.
Dec 9, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Named b Centauri (AB)b (or b Centauri b), the newfound exoplanet is estimated to be only 15 million years old and 10 times the mass of Jupiter, according to an analysis of data collected by the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). An artist’s impression of b Centauri b and its host stars. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada. The b Centauri system is located approximately...

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An artist’s reconstruction of Stegouros elengassen. Image credit: Luis Pérez López.

Subantarctic Armored Dinosaur Had Bizarre Tail Weapon

Dec 8, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an almost complete skeleton found in Chilean Patagonia. An artist’s reconstruction of...

An artist’s rendition of Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Image credit: James Kuether.

Fossils Reveal Unique Walking Behavior of Quetzalcoatlus

Dec 8, 2021 by News Staff

With a 11-12-m wingspan (37-40 feet), Quetzalcoatlus is the largest flying organism ever known and one of the most familiar pterosaurs to the public. Its...

Redondo et al. found a greater accuracy for both the horizontal and random motion paths of DVA after caffeine ingestion. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Caffeine Intake Improves Reaction to Moving Targets, New Study Suggests

Dec 8, 2021 by News Staff

New research suggests that caffeine intake (i.e., a capsule containing 4 mg/kg) has an ergogenic effect on dynamic visual acuity (DVA) — the ability...

The olivaceous flatbill (Rhynchocyclus olivaceus). Image credit: Hector Bottai / CC BY 4.0.

New Species of Bird Discovered in South America

Dec 7, 2021 by Natali Anderson

A team of ornithologists from Brazil and Finland has discovered a cryptic new species of flatbill flycatcher living in the Amazonian lowlands. The olivaceous...

Astronomers Discover New Dark-Matter-Free Galaxy

Dec 7, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States have found no trace of dark matter in AGC 114905, a gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxy...

An artist’s impression of a pig-nosed turtle. Image credit: Monash University.

5-Million-Year-Old Pig-Nosed Turtle Fossil Found in South-Eastern Australia

Dec 7, 2021 by News Staff

The upper Miocene to lower Pliocene fossil from Beaumaris in Victoria, south-eastern Australia, completely rewrites the evolution of pig-nosed turtles. An...

Western honeybees (Apis mellifera). Image credit: PollyDot.

Western Honeybees May Have Originated in Asia, New Study Says

Dec 3, 2021 by News Staff

The origin of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) has been intensely debated. Addressing this knowledge gap is essential for understanding the evolution...

An artist’s impression of the sub-Earth exoplanet Gliese 367b. Image credit: SPP 1992 (Patricia Klein).

Iron-Rich Sub-Earth Exoplanet Found Orbiting Gliese 367

Dec 3, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have identified a dense, ultra-short-period sub-Earth planet transiting the bright,...

The dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo I is 30 times smaller than the Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC / SDSS.

Dwarf Galaxy Leo I Hosts Strangely Massive Black Hole, Astronomers Say

Dec 2, 2021 by News Staff

A black hole in the center of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy called Leo I is almost as massive as the central black hole of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The dwarf...

New Zealand’s Extinct Giant Bird Killed Like Eagle, Ate Like Condor

Dec 1, 2021 by News Staff

The Haast’s eagle (Hieraaetus moorei), the largest known eagle, habitually killed prey larger than itself, then applied feeding methods typical of vultures...

Life reconstructions of Kyhytysuka sachicarum. Image credit: Dirley Cortés.

New Species of Hypercarnivorous Ichthyosaur Identified

Nov 30, 2021 by News Staff

A new species of Cretaceous hypercarnivorous ichthyosaur, Kyhytysuka sachicarum, has been described from a fossil found in Colombia. Life reconstructions...

Kriegman et al. show that clusters of cells, if freed from a developing organism, can similarly find and combine loose cells into clusters that look and move like they do, and that this ability does not have to be specifically evolved or introduced by genetic manipulation. Image credit: Kriegman et al., doi: 10.1073/pnas.2112672118.

Researchers Create Self-Replicating Living Robots

Nov 30, 2021 by News Staff

Professor Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont, and his colleagues from Tufts University and Harvard University’s...

Daly et al. used atom probe tomography to directly observe an average ~1 mol% enrichment in water and hydroxyls in the solar-wind-irradiated rim of an olivine grain from the S-type asteroid Itokawa. Image credit: Curtin University.

Part of Earth’s Water Came from the Sun, New Study Suggests

Nov 29, 2021 by News Staff

The solar wind, comprised of solar particles largely made of hydrogen ions, created water on the surface of dust grains carried on asteroids that smashed...

Life reconstruction of Effigia okeeffeae. Image credit: Mark Witton.

Triassic Crocodile Relative was Specialist Herbivore, Study Reveals

Nov 29, 2021 by News Staff

Effigia okeeffeae, a shuvosaurid (an ancient relative of the crocodiles) that lived in North America during the Triassic period, was a specialist herbivore...

Dorsal views of the 41,500-year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave, Poland. Image credit: Antonino Vazzana / BRAVHO Lab, Bologna University.

41,500-Year-Old Mammoth Ivory Pendant Found in Poland

Nov 26, 2021 by News Staff

The 41,500-year-old oval-shaped pendant from Stajnia Cave in Poland is the oldest decorated jewelry found in Eurasia. Dorsal views of the 41,500-year-old...

The Rutland mosaic. Image credit: Historic England Archive.

Ancient Roman Villa with Magnificent Mosaic Unearthed in UK

Nov 25, 2021 by News Staff

The 1,700-year-old mosaic — part of the ruins of the ancient Roman villa complex in Rutland, England — is the first example in the UK displaying...

NASA Successfully Launches DART Mission to Test Asteroid Deflection

Nov 25, 2021 by News Staff

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission launched November 24, 2021 at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex...

Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba commissioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Image credit: Elisabeth Daynes / S. Entressangle.

Australopithecus sediba Comfortably Walked on Two Legs, But Could Climb Like Ape

Nov 24, 2021 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have discovered and examined the fossil lumbar vertebrae of Australopithecus sediba, a small hominin that lived about 2 million years...

Life reconstruction of Kaririavis mater. Image credit: Divulgação.

Fossil of 115-Million-Year-Old Bird Found in Brazil

Nov 23, 2021 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists working in Brazil have uncovered the fossil of an ornithuromorph bird that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch. Life reconstruction...

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