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Neanderthals Hunted Straight-Tusked Elephants 125,000 Years Ago

Professor Gaudzinski-Windheuser standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an adult male European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany. Image credit: Lutz Kindler, LEIZA.
Feb 2, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of the Pleistocene epoch, present in Europe and western Asia between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago. A new analysis of 125,000-year-old bones of straight-tusked elephants from ancient lake deposits in Germany shows that hunting of these enormous animals was part of the cultural repertoire of Neanderthals there, over 2,000 years, many dozens of generations. Professor...

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Life reconstruction of Coccocephalus wildi. Image credit: Márcio L. Castro.

Carboniferous Fossil Gives Insight into Neural Anatomy of Early Ray-Finned Fishes

Feb 2, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have examined the fossilized brain and cranial nerve soft tissues of Coccocephalus wildi, a species of early ray-finned fish that lived...

Prototypes designed and built by Kay et al. contain several layers of channels, each of which contain fluids with various optical properties; by pumping the fluids in and out of the channels, the system can optimize the type, quantity and distribution of light passing through. Image credit: Raphael Kay / Adrian So.

Researchers Create Squid-Inspired ‘Liquid Windows’

Feb 1, 2023 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has developed a multilayered fluidic system that can reduce the energy costs of heating, cooling and...

Iotuba chengjiangensis. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2014.

515-Million-Year-Old Fossils Shed Light on Evolution of Annelid Worms

Feb 1, 2023 by News Staff

The principal animal lineages diverged in the Cambrian period, but most diversity at lower taxonomic ranks arose more gradually over the subsequent 500...

Flightless or poorly-flighted modern, and recently extinct, paleognath birds with their respective egg sizes. Lithornis, an ancient flying paleognath bird, is depicted and has an unknown egg size. Image credit: Hyunjoo Shin / CC BY 4.0.

Ornithologists Construct New Phylogenetic Family Tree for Paleognath Birds

Feb 1, 2023 by Natali Anderson

About 50 species of birds on Earth today do not belong to the same group as the other 10,000 currently in existence. Known as the paleognaths, this small...

This composite image shows at least three galaxy clusters colliding in a jumbled scene. The resulting giant galaxy cluster, known as Abell 2256, resembles a grainy, pixilated, sky blue cloud topped with licks of flaming red hair. The cloud is adorned with red shapes and streaks, and set against a black background heavily dotted with colorful specks. The image combines X-ray, radio, optical, and infrared data. Image credit: NASA / CXC / University of Bolonga / Rajpurohit et al. / ESA / XMM-Newton / LOFAR / ASTRON / NCRA / TIFR / GMRT / NSF / NRAO / VLA / Pan-STARRS.

Astronomers Capture Ongoing Collision of Three Galaxy Clusters

Feb 1, 2023 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and three radio telescopes (the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, the Low Frequency Array,...

This Webb image shows LEDA 2046648, a spiral galaxy one billion light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / A. Martel.

Webb Spots Large Spiral Galaxy in Hercules

Jan 31, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

LEDA 2046648 is accompanied by a profusion of smaller, more distant galaxies which range from fully-fledged spirals to mere bright smudges. This Webb image...

This mosaic image taken by the Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest resolution views ever obtained of Mimas. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

Mimas Has an Expanding, Young Ocean, New Research Suggests

Jan 31, 2023 by News Staff

Mimas, a small moon of Saturn, is heavily cratered and lacks the typical characteristics of an ocean-bearing moon, such as the active surface of Enceladus....

An artist’s impression of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope receiving signals from space. Image credit: Danielle Futselaar / Breakthrough Listen.

Artificial Intelligence Detects New Technosignature Signals of Interest

Jan 31, 2023 by News Staff

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, astronomers with Breakthrough Listen Initiative — the largest ever scientific research...

Life reconstruction of Turnersuchus hingleyae. Image credit: Júlia d’Oliveira.

Jurassic Sea Crocodile Fossil Found in United Kingdom

Jan 31, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Turnersuchus hingleyae, a new genus and species of thalattosuchian crocodylomorph from the Early Jurassic epoch, helps fill a gap in the fossil record...

X-ray powder diffraction mapping at multiple length scales revealed the unusual presence of lead(II) formate in several areas of The Night Watch. Image credit: Gonzalez et al., doi: 10.1002/anie.202216478.

Unusual Lead Compound Detected in Rembrandt’s Most Famous Painting

Jan 31, 2023 by News Staff

The Night Watch, painted in 1642 and on view in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, is considered Rembrandt’s most famous work. In new research, scientists...

Life reconstruction of a hibbertopterid sea scorpion. Image credit: DiBgd / CC BY-SA 4.0.

New Species of Giant Sea Scorpion Unearthed in New Mexico

Jan 30, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

Hibbertopterus lamsdelli is only the fourth, yet most reliable record of an American hibbertopterid sea scorpion. Life reconstruction of a hibbertopterid...

Caffeic and chlorogenic acids are commonly found phenolic acids in plant-derived foods and beverages; their corresponding adducts with an amino acid called cysteine have been detected in coffee-containing beverages. Image credit: StockSnap.

Coffee With Milk Have Anti-Inflammatory Effect, New Study Says

Jan 30, 2023 by News Staff

A combination of proteins and antioxidants doubles the anti-inflammatory properties in immune cells, according to a new paper published in the Journal...

This illustration shows what Chariklo and its rings could look like, based on our current understanding. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Leah Hustak, STScI.

Webb Detects Water Ice on Chariklo, Spies Its Ring System

Jan 30, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured the reflectance spectrum of the double-ringed centaur 10199 Chariklo and observed...

The dandelion-inspired, wind-dispersed robot. Image credit: Jianfeng Yang / Tampere University.

Researchers Create Dandelion-Inspired Robot Controlled by Power of Light and Wind

Jan 30, 2023 by News Staff

The robot’s design is inspired by the seed of dandelion, resembling several biomimetic features, i.e., high porosity, lightweight, and separated vortex...

This new Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula, which is located about 163,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Dorado: wispy, nebulous clouds extend from the lower-left of the image; at the top and right the dark background of space can be seen through the sparse nebula; along the left and in the corner are many layers of brightly-colored gas and dark, obscuring dust; a cluster of small, bright blue stars in the same corner expands out across the image. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Murray / E. Sabbi / Y.-H. Chu.

Hubble Space Telescope Focuses on Tarantula Nebula

Jan 30, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a spectacular image of a very turbulent part of the Tarantula Nebula. This new Hubble...

An artist’s impression of a magnetar eruption. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Astronomers Detect Spin-Down Glitch in Distant Magnetar

Jan 27, 2023 by News Staff

Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense magnetic...

Life reconstruction of Ignacius dawsonae. Image credit: Kristen Miller, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas.

Early Primate Relatives Lived in High Arctic 52 Million Years Ago

Jan 27, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described two new species of the early primatomorphan genus Ignacius from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Life reconstruction of...

This is an artist's impression of a rocky and water-rich asteroid being torn apart by the strong gravity of the white dwarf star GD 61. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick, Space-art.co.uk / University of Warwick / University of Cambridge.

Small Asteroid Flew Safely Past Earth This Week

Jan 27, 2023 by News Staff

A small near-Earth asteroid designated 2023 BU made its closest approach on January 26, 2023 at 7:29 p.m. EST (4:29 p.m. PST, or January 27, 2023 at 00:29...

An orbiting star begins to eclipse its partner, a rapidly rotating, superdense stellar remnant called a pulsar, in this illustration. Image credit: NASA / Sonoma State University / Aurore Simonnet.

Fermi Detects Gamma-Ray Eclipses from Seven ‘Spider’ Binary Systems

Jan 26, 2023 by News Staff

Spider binary systems contain a pulsar — the superdense, rapidly rotating remains of a star that exploded as a supernova — that slowly erodes...

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