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Bicellum brasieri. Image credit: Strother et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.051.

Paleontologists Find One-Billion-Year-Old Multicellular Microfossils

May 3, 2021 by News Staff

Bicellum brasieri, a freshwater protist that lived nearly one billion years ago, had two distinct cell types and could be the earliest multicellular animal...

Etelis boweni, caught in American Samoa. Image credit: NOAA Fisheries.

New Species of Deepwater Snapper Discovered

May 3, 2021 by News Staff

A team of marine biologists from the United States, Spain and Taiwan has discovered a new species of the snapper genus Etelis living in Indo-West Pacific...

This Hubble image shows the young exoplanet PDS 70b. Image credit: Joseph DePasquale, STScI.

Hubble Captures First-Ever Ultraviolet Image of Exoplanet

Apr 30, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have imaged a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet around the orange dwarf star PDS 70. This is the...

Brachycephalus rotenbergae. Image credit: Nunes et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244812.

New Species of Poisonous Fluorescent Frog Discovered in Brazil

Apr 30, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Scientists have described a new species of the frog genus Brachycephalus from the forests of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Brachycephalus rotenbergae....

Zhang et al. demonstrate the long-sought transition between atomic and molecular condensates, the bosonic analogue of the crossover from a Bose-Einstein condensate to a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluid in a Fermi gas. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03443-0.

Physicists Turn Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate into Molecular One

Apr 29, 2021 by News Staff

Molecular quantum gases (that is, ultracold and dense molecular gases) have many potential applications, including quantum control of chemical reactions,...

This artist’s illustration of Yamatosaurus izanagii (center) represents its ancestry to more advanced hadrosaurs (in the background). Image credit: Masato Hattori.

Meet Yamatosaurus izanagii, New Hadrosaur from Japan

Apr 28, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Yamatosaurus izanagii roamed our planet 71.8 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous epoch. This artist’s illustration of Yamatosaurus izanagii...

An artist’s impression of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-33b and its parent star. Image credit: Astrobiology Center.

Hydroxyl Radical Detected in Atmosphere of Ultrahot Jupiter

Apr 28, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have detected a hydroxyl radical (OH) — the neutral form of the hydroxide ion — in the dayside atmosphere of the ultrahot Jupiter...

Life reconstruction of Arackar licanantay. Image credit: Mauricio Álvarez.

New Titanosaur Species Unearthed in Chile

Apr 26, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of lithostrotian titanosaur has been identified from a partial skeleton found in northern Chile. Life reconstruction of Arackar...

This Hubble image shows AG Carinae, a luminous blue variable star some 20,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carinae. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument. Four filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI.

Hubble Celebrates Its 31st Birthday with Incredible Image of AG Carinae

Apr 23, 2021 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned 31 this year, and for the occasion, the Hubble team has just released a beautiful image of the luminous blue...

NASA’s Perseverance rover acquired this image on April 22, 2021, using its left Mastcam-Z camera. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Completes Its Second Flight on Mars

Apr 22, 2021 by News Staff

Lasting 51.9 seconds, Ingenuity’s experimental flight on April 22, 2021, added several new challenges to its first flight, including a higher maximum...

This composite image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ALMA, shows the galaxy cluster RXCJ0600-2007 and lensed images of the galaxy RXCJ0600-z6 (red). Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / Fujimoto et al. / NASA / ESA / Hubble Team.

ALMA Spots Gravitationally Lensed Rotating Galaxy in Early Universe

Apr 22, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a rotating dwarf galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way in...

An artist’s impression of the V723 Mon binary system. Image credit: Lauren Fanfer / Ohio State University.

Astronomers Discover Closest Known Black Hole Candidate

Apr 22, 2021 by News Staff

The newly-discovered stellar-mass black hole candidate is a binary companion to a nearby red giant called V723 Mon. An artist’s impression of the V723...

An artist’s conception of a violent stellar flare from Proxima Centauri. Image credit: S. Dagnello, NRAO / AUI / NSF.

Astronomers Detect Extreme Flare from Proxima Centauri

Apr 21, 2021 by News Staff

Using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,...

Rare Wild Coffee Species Has Arabica-Like Flavor, Greater Tolerance to Higher Temperatures

Apr 20, 2021 by Natali Anderson

The enigmatic narrow-leaved coffee (Coffea stenophylla), a rare and little-known species of wild coffee from West Africa, has a similar flavor profile...

The 3,450-year-old alphabetic inscription on a sherd from Tel Lachish, Israel. Image credit: J. Dye, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Archaeologists Find 3,450-Year-Old Alphabetic Inscription in Israel

Apr 20, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology has discovered...

Life reconstruction of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). Image credit: Biodiversity Heritage Library / Sci-News.com.

Scientists Sequence Genome of Extinct Steller’s Sea Cow

Apr 19, 2021 by Natali Anderson

A multinational team of researchers has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). Their results show...

NASA’s Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Right Navigation Camera (Navcam). The camera is located high on the rover’s mast and aids in driving. The image was taken on April 19, 2021 at the local mean solar time of 12:33:35. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Demonstrates Powered, Controlled Flight on Mars

Apr 19, 2021 by News Staff

On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made history, hovering above Jezero Crater on Mars, demonstrating that powered, controlled flight on another...

A life reconstruction of the stegosaur trackmakers and paleoenvironment 110 million years ago. Image credit: Kaitoge.

World’s Smallest Stegosaur Footprint Found

Apr 16, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 5.7-cm-long stegosaur footprint in Xinjiang province, China. A life reconstruction of the stegosaur...

Ecological reconstruction of Pelretes vivificus in the Burmese amber forest; the flowers in the reconstruction are based on Lijinganthus revoluta. Image credit: J. Sun.

98-Million-Year-Old Pollen-Feeding Beetle Found Preserved in Amber

Apr 14, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found an exceptionally preserved short-winged flower beetle and associated pollen aggregations and coprolites in a piece of mid-Cretaceous...