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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Observes ‘Solar Energetic Particle’ Events

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Image credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.
Feb 4, 2020 by News Staff

New observations from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe show how Sun’s plasma that is released after a solar flare can accelerate and pile up solar energetic particles generating dangerous radiation conditions. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Image credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. “We’re getting some of the earliest observations from this mission to the Sun on how the coronal mass ejection — the Sun’s release...

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The 7,300-year-old water well near Ostrov, the Czech Republic. Image credit: Archaeological Centre in Olomouc.

7,300-Year-Old Wooden Well Unearthed in Czech Republic

Feb 4, 2020 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of archaeologists has unearthed a Neolithic water well made of oak trees at the northern border of the town of Ostrov in the Czech...

Viral particle before (left) and after treatment. Image credit: University of Manchester.

Modified Sugars Show Broad-Spectrum Virucidal Activity

Feb 4, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Manchester, the University of Geneva, and the EPFL has synthesized new antiviral materials that proved to...

Graphic illustrating NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft encountering plasma layers at Mars. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / CI lab.

MAVEN Detects Sporadic ‘Layers’ and ‘Rifts’ in Martian Ionosphere

Feb 3, 2020 by News Staff

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has detected sporadic ‘layers’ and ‘rifts’ in the ionosphere — the electrically...

A cell layer with a visible cytopathic effect; the cells infected by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus were destroyed. Image credit: National Reference Center for Respiratory Viruses, Institut Pasteur.

French Scientists Grow 2019-nCoV Coronavirus from Patient Samples, Sequence Its Whole Genome

Feb 3, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

On January 24, 2020, the French Ministry of Health announced three cases of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus in France. On January 29, a team of researchers from...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope was placed in safe mode on January 30, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. EST (2:30 p.m. PST). Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

NASA Retires Spitzer Space Telescope

Feb 3, 2020 by News Staff

After more than 16 years studying the Universe in infrared light, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has been placed in safe mode. NASA’s Spitzer Space...

Study: 2019-nCoV Coronavirus Receptors Show Similarities to SARS

Feb 3, 2020 by News Staff

In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina has analyzed the potential receptor usage by...

This Hubble image reveals a detailed view of the central part of the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 5364. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). 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 / Hubble / L. Ho.

Hubble Focuses on Grand Design Spiral Galaxy NGC 5364

Feb 3, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of the central part of a grand design spiral galaxy called NGC 5364. This Hubble image reveals...

New Study Estimates Spread of 2019-nCoV Coronavirus

Jan 31, 2020 by News Staff

As of January 25, 2020, up to 75,800 individuals in Wuhan, Hubei province, China — the epicenter of the outbreak of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus —...

Ohio State University researchers cut an ice core retrieved from the Guliya ice cap in the Kunlun Mountains in Tibet in 2015. Image credit: Giuliano Bertagna, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University.

15,000-Year-Old Viruses and Bacteria Found in Glacier Ice from Tibet

Jan 31, 2020 by Natali Anderson

A team of U.S. researchers has found ancient viruses and bacteria in ice from two cores drilled on the summit and plateau of the Guliya ice cap in northwestern...

An artist’s depiction of a rapidly spinning neutron star and a white dwarf dragging the fabric of spacetime around its orbit. Image credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence.

Exotic Binary System Confirms Relativistic Frame-Dragging

Jan 31, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has found exciting new evidence for Lense-Thirring precession — an effect of relativistic frame-dragging —...

Is 2019-nCoV Outbreak as Bad as SARS or 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic?

Jan 31, 2020 by The Conversation

As the 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to cross international borders, the two key questions on public health officials’ minds are: How deadly is it?...

Neanderthal. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum.

Study: African Individuals Carry More Neanderthal DNA than Previously Thought

Jan 31, 2020 by News Staff

Using a novel method for detecting Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans, a team of U.S. researchers has demonstrated that remnants of Neanderthal genomes...

Drosophila melanogaster. Image credit: Botaurus.

Fruit Flies Spontaneously Form Orderly Groups

Jan 30, 2020 by News Staff

According to new research, opposing desires to congregate and maintain some personal space drive fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) to form orderly...

The auroral dunes appear as a green-tinged and even pattern of waves resembling a striped veil of clouds or dunes on a sandy beach. Image credit: Kari Saari.

Auroral Dunes: Citizen Scientists Discover New Form of Aurora

Jan 30, 2020 by News Staff

Named the auroral dunes, the phenomenon was discovered by citizen scientists in Finland; it occurs at a relatively low altitude of 100 km (62 miles), in...

How Contagious is 2019-nCoV Coronavirus?

Jan 30, 2020 by The Conversation

Cases of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus have increased dramatically over the past week, prompting concerns about how contagious the virus is and how it spreads....

This image of the Sun’s surface was captured by NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope. The image, taken at 789 nm, shows features as small as 30 km (18 miles). Image credit: NSO / NSF / AURA.

Inouye Solar Telescope Captures Most Detailed Images Ever Seen of Sun’s Surface

Jan 30, 2020 by News Staff

The high-resolution images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, on the summit of Haleakala, Hawai’i, show a close-up...

A drug-resistant visualizing paper-based band-aid for point-of-care sensing and selectively treating drug-resistant bacteria. Image credit: Sun et al, doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b01104.

Color-Changing Paper-Based Bandages Sense, Selectively Treat Bacterial Infections

Jan 29, 2020 by News Staff

A team of scientists has developed visualizing paper-based bandages that can sense drug-resistant and drug-sensitive bacteria in wounds and implement a...

Bombus vosnesenskii flies in a field of lupine flowers. Image credit: Spencer Hardy, the Institute for Bird Populations.

Biologists Identify Favorite Flowers of North American Bumblebees

Jan 29, 2020 by News Staff

Bumblebee declines have been attributed to a handful of factors, including lack of flowers. Not all flowers are used equally by bumblebees, and determining...

An artist’s impression of the KSN:BS-C11a system. Image credit: NASA / L. Hustak, STScI / R. Ridden-Harper, STScI & Australian National University.

Kepler Observes Earliest Stages of Dwarf Nova’s Super-Outburst

Jan 29, 2020 by News Staff

Using the archival data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a previously unknown dwarf nova that underwent a ‘supermaxima’...

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