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Spectacular New Species of Bat Discovered in Guinea

Myotis nimbaensis. Image credit: Bat Conservation International.
Jan 14, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered a new dichromatic species of bat in the Guinean Nimba Mountains belonging in the genus Myotis. An artist’s impression of Myotis nimbaensis. Image credit: Patricia Wynne. Myotis is the most speciose genus of bats with over 120 living species and a range that covers most of the world. These bats are primarily insectivorous and range from tiny species that weigh only a few grams (e.g., Myotis elegans,...

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Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy map of nuclear DNA in live cells stained with the DAOTA-M2 probe; colors represent fluorescence lifetimes between 9 (red) and 13 (blue) nanoseconds. Scale bars - 20 µm. Image credit: Summers et al., doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20414-7.

Researchers Visualize Quadruple-Helix DNA in Living Human Cells

Jan 14, 2021 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Spain has demonstrated that a technique called fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy in conjunction...

An artist’s rendition of the TOI-561 planetary system. Image credit: Adam Makarenko / W.M. Keck Observatory.

Astronomers Discover 10-Billion-Year-Old Multiplanet System

Jan 13, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer on the Keck I telescope at the W. M. Keck...

A supermassive black hole siphons gas off of an orbiting giant star. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Chris Smith, USRA & GESTAR.

Astronomers Find Periodically Flaring Black Hole in Distant Galaxy

Jan 13, 2021 by News Staff

An active galactic nucleus in the center of ESO 253-G003, an active galaxy over 570 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Pictor, erupts...

Hypothetical reconstruction of the Emslie’s vulture (Cathartes emsliei). Image credit: William Suárez.

Fossils of New Vulture Species Found in Cuba

Jan 13, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of small vulture that lived during the Quaternary period in the Greater Antilles has been identified from fossils found in western Cuba. Hypothetical...

Canadian Eskimo dogs. Illustration by John James Audubon and John Bachman (1845-1848).

Sharing Leftover Meat Enabled Dog Domestication during Harsh Ice Age Winters: Study

Jan 13, 2021 by News Staff

New research led by the University of Helsinki suggests that dog domestication needs to be understood in terms of competition over resources in the particularly...

Ingredients in oolong tea can stimulate fat oxidation. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Drinking Oolong Tea May Help Reduce Body Fat

Jan 13, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a study published recently in the journal Nutrients, oolong tea and pure caffeine increased fat breakdown by about 20% in the healthy volunteers; oolong...

Reconstruction of the living Namacalathus: 1 - stem; 2 - parental cup; 3 - daughter cups; 4 - hollow ciliated tentacles; 5 - spines; 6 - lateral lumen; 7 - central opening; 8 - inner skeletal layer, foliated with columnar microlamellar inflections; 9 - internal (middle) skeletal later, organic rich; 10 - external outer skeletal layer, foliated with columnar skeletal inflections. Image credit: J. Sibbick.

Paleontologists Find Evolutionary Link between Ediacaran and Early Cambrian Multicellular Animals

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described the first three-dimensional preservation of soft tissue in Namacalathus hermanastes, a skeletal metazoan (multicellular...

An artist’s impression of the ID2299 galaxy. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Galaxy Mergers May Play Important Role in Quenching of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a massive starburst galaxy with a tail of star-forming gas in...

This composite image of Swift J1818.0-1607 contains a wide field of view in the infrared from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, taken before the magnetar’s discovery. X-rays from Chandra show the magnetar in purple. Image credit: NASA / CXC / University of West Virginia / H. Blumer / JPL / Caltech / Spitzer.

Chandra Observes Young, Fast Spinning Magnetar and Its Environment

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have studied Swift J1818.0-1607, a new magnetar (a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful...

Cartoon illustration of the device design, where a thin hBN layer (blue) with selectively etched areas is used to avoid contact of the Pd electrodes (yellow) with the edges of the monolayer WTe2. The stack of graphite (gray)/hBN (blue)/monolayer WTe2 (red), shown in the cross-sectional view, is further stacked onto the bottom part with the electrodes, as indicated by the arrow. Inset: an image of device 1; the dashed red line highlights the monolayer edges and the white squares denote the contact regions. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-03084-9.

Physicists Observe Unexpected Quantum Phenomenon in Two-Dimensional Insulator

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

A team of physicists from the United States and Japan has experimentally observed a phenomenon called quantum oscillation in a two-dimensional topological...

A long-exposure observation lasting 70 min from the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, reveals NGC 1003 in glorious detail. This spiral galaxy resides in front of a galaxy cluster and the long exposure time of this deep observation allowed usually overlooked red background cluster galaxies to be captured. Image credit: KPNO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / Maria T. Patterson, New Mexico State University / Travis Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage / Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin.

Astronomers Capture Deep Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1003

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

A spectacular new image, taken with the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1003 and a collection...

Head of a female of Lasioglossum dorchini. Image credit: Nahal Alexander / A. Pauly.

New Species of Wild Bee Discovered in Israel

Jan 11, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has discovered a new species of the bee genus Lasioglossum living in sand dunes in Israel. Head of a female of Lasioglossum...

2-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Unearthed in Tanzania

Jan 11, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has discovered a large collection of 2-million-year-old stone tools, fossilized bones...

This image, taken with VLT’s MUSE instrument, shows the central region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097. Image credit: VLT / ESO / TIMER Survey.

VLT Spots Star-Bursting Nuclear Ring in NGC 1097

Jan 11, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, astronomers have imaged...

An artist’s impression of the Neptune-sized planet NGTS-14Ab. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Discovered in Binary System NGTS-14

Jan 11, 2021 by Natali Anderson

NGTS-14Ab, an alien world slightly larger than Neptune orbiting around an orange dwarf in the binary system NGTS-14, joins a growing number of exoplanets...

This image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 613 was snapped by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The color composite was assembled from images taken in visible and near-infrared light. Three 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 / Hubble / G. Folatelli.

Hubble Space Telescope Focuses on NGC 613

Jan 11, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most detailed image so far of the central part of the barred spiral galaxy NGC...

Bacillus subtilis. Image credit: Ákos Kovács, Technical University of Denmark.

Non-Photosynthetic Bacteria Have Their Own Circadian Clocks

Jan 8, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom has identified circadian rhythms in non-photosynthetic, Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus...

An artist's conception of the binary system WISE 1049-5319 with the Sun in the background (Janella Williams / Penn State University)

TESS Finds High-Speed Jets, Vortex-Dominated Polar Regions on Nearby Brown Dwarf

Jan 8, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

New observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have revealed the presence of high-speed jets, zonal circulation and polar...

An artist’s impression of Smilodon fatalis. Image credit: Sergio De la Rosa / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Saber-Toothed Tigers Had Unique Growth Strategy among Big Cats

Jan 8, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto have found and examined the fossilized remains of two subadult and one adult...

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