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Bumblebee workers facing pollen scarcity use their proboscises and mandibles to cut distinctively shaped holes in plant leaves, with each damage event taking only a few seconds. Image credit: Hannier Pulido / ETH Zurich.

Bumblebees Bite Leaves of Flowerless Plants to Stimulate Earlier Flowering

May 25, 2020 by News Staff

Bumblebees rely heavily on pollen resources for essential nutrients as they build their summer colonies. Therefore, annual differences in the availability...

This image shows the Jupiter trojan asteroid 2019 LD2. Image credit: ATLAS.

Astronomers Spot First Trojan Asteroid with Comet-Like Tail: 2019 LD2

May 22, 2020 by News Staff

2019 LD2 is the first known Jupiter trojan asteroid to display cometary activity with a visible coma and tail, according to a team of astronomers from...

The 300,000-year-old wooden throwing stick at Schöningen 13 II-4, Germany. Image credit: Alexander Gonschior.

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Throwing Stick Found in Germany

May 22, 2020 by Sergio Prostak

A team of archaeologists from the University of Tübingen and the University of Liège has unearthed a well-preserved wooden throwing stick at the Middle...

An artist’s impression of DLA0817g (Wolfe Disk), a massive, rotating disk galaxy in the early, dusty Universe. Image credit: NRAO / AUI / NSF / S. Dagnello.

Massive, Rotating Disk Galaxy Spotted 12.3 Billion Light-Years Away

May 20, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found evidence for the most distant rotationally supported disk galaxy ever...

Titanichthys was a suspension feeder with jaws ill-suited for biting and crushing but well suited for gaping ram feeding. Image credit: Mark Witton.

Titanichthys: Devonian-Period Armored Fish was Suspension Feeder

May 20, 2020 by News Staff

Titanichthys, a giant placoderm (armored fish) from the Devonian period, fed in a similar manner to basking sharks, according to a study published in the...

Life reconstruction of the first Australian elaphrosaur. Image credit: Ruairidh Duncan.

New Dinosaur Unearthed in Australia

May 18, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Australia have found a fossilized vertebra from an elaphrosaurine theropod dinosaur that walked the Earth 110 million years ago (Cretaceous...

An artist’s impression of the super-Earth exoplanet HD 164922d. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Hot Super-Earth Discovered Orbiting Ancient Star

May 18, 2020 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has discovered a close-in super-Earth exoplanet in the HD 164922 planetary system. An artist’s impression of the...

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a VERO E6 cell (purple) exhibiting elongated cell projections and signs of apoptosis, after infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (pink), which were isolated from a patient sample. Image credit: NIAID.

New Antibody Completely Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus

May 18, 2020 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. has isolated a new antibody that completely inhibits the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus virus in cell culture. Colorized...

Hawaiian Volcano Puhahonu is Earth’s Biggest and Hottest Shield Volcano

May 15, 2020 by News Staff

Pūhāhonu (‘turtle rising for breath’ in Hawaiian), a 13-million-year-old volcano in the northwest Hawaiian Ridge, is twice the size of Mauna Loa...

Seven New Species of Australian Peacock Spiders Discovered

May 14, 2020 by Natali Anderson

Museums Victoria arachnologist Joseph Schubert has described seven new species of the peacock spider genus Maratus from Australia. Maratus azureus. Image...

Uintacrinus socialis from the Niobrara Formation, Kansas, United States. Image credit: James St. John / CC BY 2.0.

Paleontologists Find Strange Ball-Like Structures in 80-Million-Year-Old Fossils

May 14, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists from Australia and the UK has found fullerene-like structures in Cretaceous-period crinoids, marine animals related to starfish,...

$Yang & Song found that refracted waves (blue), rather than reflected waves (purple) change over time, providing the best evidence yet that Earth’s inner core is rotating. Image credit: Michael Vincent.$

Earth’s Inner Core is Rotating, Study Says

May 13, 2020 by News Staff

The inner core of the Earth is rotating at about 0.05-0.1 degrees per year, according to an analysis of seismic data from repeating earthquakes published...

Göbekli Tepe, Enclosure C: note the discontinuity of the bench between the southern pillars and the additional construction built against the southern part of the inner peripheral wall. Image credit: Haklay & Gopher, doi: 10.1017/S0959774319000660.

Gobekli Tepe: Geometry Guided Construction of 11,500-Year-Old Megalithic Complex

May 13, 2020 by News Staff

New research from Tel Aviv University sheds light on the building history of monumental structures in the main area of Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic site...

Experimental apparatus used to synthesize pionic helium atoms at the Paul Scherrer Institute. Image credit: ASACUSA Collaboration, CERN.

CERN Physicists Create Atoms of Pionic Helium

May 13, 2020 by News Staff

Physicists from the ASACUSA (Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) Collaboration at CERN have successfully synthesized and studied...

An artist’s impression of a super-Earth exoplanet. Image credit: NASA.

Very Distant Super-Earth Discovered Through Microlensing

May 12, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star or a brown dwarf around 7,580 parsecs (24,723 light-years) from Earth. An artist’s...

Hayabusa-2 image of the asteroid Ryugu as seen from a distance of 3.7 miles. A particularly large crater is visible near the center of the image. Image credit: JAXA / University of Tokyo / Kochi University / Rikkyo University / Nagoya University / Chiba Institute of Technology / Meiji University / University of Aizu / AIST.

Hayabusa-2 Reveals Surface of Near-Earth Asteroid Ryugu in Stunning Detail

May 11, 2020 by News Staff

JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft recently traveled to the near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu to collect samples and return them to Earth for lab analysis....

The Gateway of the Sun, Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Image credit: Mhwater.

Ancient DNA Study Sheds Light on Deep Population History of Andes

May 11, 2020 by News Staff

A large international team of researchers has conducted the first in-depth, wide-scale study of the genomic history of pre-Columbian Andean civilizations...

This image shows Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Image credit: NASA / ESA / M.H. Wong, University of California, Berkeley.

Juno, Hubble, Gemini Observatory Probe Jovian Storm Systems

May 8, 2020 by News Staff

Multiwavelength observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and Gemini Observatory combined with close-up views from NASA’s Juno spacecraft...

Lin et al suggest that the use of green tea can be combined with a balanced and healthy diet and regular physical exercise in the management of obese patients. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Green Tea May Help Fight Obesity, Says New Study

May 8, 2020 by Sergio Prostak

Green tea supplementation is associated with a decrease in body weight and body mass index in obese patients, according to a new systematic review and...