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An artist’s impression of the ultrahot Neptune LTT 9779b and its parent star, LTT 9779. Image credit: Ricardo Ramirez, Universidad de Chile.

TESS Discovers First Known Ultrahot Neptune: LTT 9779b

Oct 1, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered an ultra-short-period Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting the bright Sun-like star LTT 9779. An artist’s impression of the ultrahot...

Optical photograph of the 150-million-year-old isolated fossil feather of Archaeopteryx. Image credit: Carney et al, doi: 10.1038/ncomms1642.

First Fossil Feather Ever Found Belonged to Archaeopteryx

Sep 30, 2020 by News Staff

Renowned as the first fossil feather ever known, the 150-million-year-old isolated fossil feather found in the Jurassic limestone deposits of Solnhofen,...

This composite image, taken by JAXA’s Akatsuki spacecraft, shows Venus. Image credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic.

Migrating Jupiter May Have Made Venus Uninhabitable Long Ago

Sep 30, 2020 by News Staff

Early in the formation of Jupiter as a planet, it moved closer to and then away from the Sun due to interactions with the planetary disk of the young Solar...

Broken Hysterangium bonobo fruiting body revealing brown gleba and columella at the center. Image credit: Alexander Georgiev.

New Species of Truffle Found in Congo, Thanks to Mushroom-Munching Bonobos

Sep 30, 2020 by News Staff

Fungi play a significant role in the diets and nutrition of diverse vertebrates. Many fungi, particularly truffle-like species, have evolved close associations...

Stellar Occultation Reveals Binary Trans-Neptunian Object: 2014 WC510

Sep 30, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A trans-Neptunian object designated 2014 WC510 is, in fact, a close binary system, according to an analysis of data obtained by the Research and Education...

Eating 200 g of blueberries every day for a month can lead to an improvement in blood vessel function and a decrease in systolic blood pressure in healthy people. Image credit: Free-Photos.

Blueberry Compound Could Help Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Sep 30, 2020 by News Staff

Pterostilbene, a resveratrol-related polyphenolic compound found in blueberries, has strong immunosuppressive properties, according to a study published...

The rusty millipede Trigoniulus corallinus (left) and the orange rosary millipede Helicorthomorpha holstii (right). Image credit: Wai Lok So / CC-BY.

Researchers Sequence Genomes of Two Millipede Species

Sep 29, 2020 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States has sequenced and assembled the chromosomal-level genomes of two very different...

Abdullah et al. determined that matter makes up about 31% of the total amount of matter and energy in the Universe. Image credit: Mohamed Abdullah, University of California Riverside.

Astrophysicists Measure Total Amount of Matter in Universe

Sep 29, 2020 by News Staff

Using data on a sample of 756 galaxy clusters identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a team of astrophysicists from the United States and Egypt...

An artist’s impression of an ultrahot Jupiter. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

CHEOPS Observes One of Hottest Exoplanets Known to Date: WASP-189b

Sep 29, 2020 by News Staff

Because of its proximity to its parent star, the dayside equilibrium temperature of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-189b reaches 3,162 degrees Celsius (5,724...

Knott et al. created a two-enzyme system for PET deconstruction, which employs one enzyme (PETase) to convert the polymer into soluble intermediates and another enzyme (MHETase) to produce the constituent PET monomers. This SEM image shows amorphous PET film after 96 h enzyme treatment at 30 degrees Celsius. Image credit: Knott et al., doi: 10.1073/pnas.2006753117.

Researchers Create Plastic-Degrading Enzyme Cocktail

Sep 29, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

In 2018, University of Portsmouth’s Professor John McGeehan and colleagues engineered an enzyme that can digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the...

An artist’s impression of a bald pterosaur and a feathered pterosaur. Image credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth.

New Research Refutes Claims that Pterosaurs Had Protofeathers

Sep 29, 2020 by News Staff

Dr. David Unwin from the University of Leicester and University of Portsmouth’s Professor Dave Martill believe Mesozoic flying reptiles called pterosaurs...

An artist’s impression of ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. Image credit: ESA / ATG Medialab / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

Mars Express Finds Three New Water Bodies below Martian South Pole

Sep 28, 2020 by Natali Anderson

Using new radar data from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, researchers have detected three reservoirs of liquid water trapped below the south polar cap...

An artist’s impression of BOSS-EUVLG1, a star-forming galaxy located some 12 billion light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM / IAC.

Astronomers Discover Most Luminous, Un-Obscured Star-Forming Galaxy Ever Seen

Sep 28, 2020 by Natali Anderson

A young starburst galaxy named BOSS-EUVLG1 is by far the most luminous, almost un-obscured star-forming galaxy known at any redshift. An artist’s impression...

View of the Chang’E 4 lander with the location of the LND sensor head indicated by the red arrow. LND is mounted in the Chang’E 4 payload compartment; the lid at the tip of the red arrow is closed at night to protect LND from the cold lunar night. Image credit: Chinese National Space Agency / National Astronomical Observatories of China.

Scientists Measure Radiation Dose Rates on Lunar Surface

Sep 28, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the Lunar Lander Neutrons and Dosimetry (LND) experiment aboard China’s Chang’E 4 lander, a team of researchers from Germany and China has measured...

Gravicalymene bakeri. Scale bar - 1 cm. Image credit: Smith & Ebach.

Fossils of New Trilobite Species Found in Tasmania

Sep 28, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Tasmania have unearthed the fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of the trilobite genus Gravicalymene and named it after...

This Hubble image shows NGC 5643, a grand design spiral galaxy some 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Lupus. The color image is composed of infrared and optical observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). It is based on data obtained through four filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Riess et al / Mahdi Zamani.

Hubble Observes Grand Design Spiral Galaxy: NGC 5643

Sep 28, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an absolutely beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5643. This Hubble image shows...

Physicists seek to understand the underlying laws of the Universe. Image credit: Johnson Martin.

Paradox-Free Time Travel is Mathematically Possible: Study

Sep 25, 2020 by News Staff

Time travel with free will is logically possible in our Universe without any paradox, according to new research from the University of Queensland. Physicists...

An artist’s impression of the massive proto-binary system IRAS 16547-4247. Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO.

ALMA Detects Salt, Water, Silicon Compounds and Methyl Cyanide around Two Massive Protostars

Sep 25, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected sodium chloride, silicon compounds, and water vapor in the circumstellar...

Neanderthal. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum.

Scientists Sequence Y Chromosome DNA of Denisovans and Neanderthals

Sep 25, 2020 by News Staff

The genomes of our closest relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, have been sequenced and compared with that of modern humans. However, most archaic individuals...