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The Hyperion proto-supercluster is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance -- about 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada & Olga Cucciati et al.

Astronomers Find Proto-Supercluster of Galaxies in Early Universe

Oct 18, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have spotted a gigantic galaxy proto-supercluster in the early Universe, just 2.3 billion years after the...

The yellow pot sponge (Rhabdastrella globostellata), a modern species of demosponge that makes the same 26-mes steroids that Zumberge et al found in ancient rocks. Image credit: Ria Tan, www.wildsingapore.com / CC BY 2.0.

Scientists Find New Biomarker Evidence for Neoproterozoic Animals

Oct 17, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by University of California, Riverside’s Professor Gordon Love has found the oldest evidence yet of animal life, dating back...

The wild sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum). Image credit: Joydeep / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Researchers Sequence Genome of Wild Sugarcane

Oct 17, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of over 100 scientists from 16 institutions has sequenced the genome of the wild sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum). The results appear...

This image shows data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple in the inset boxes) in context with an optical image of GRB 150101B from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: X-rays – NASA / CXC / GSFC / UMC / E. Troja et al; optical and infrared – NASA / STScI.

Astronomers Find Object with Remarkable Similarities to Neutron-Star Merger GW170817

Oct 17, 2018 by News Staff

A distant relative to GW170817, the first source identified to emit gravitational waves and light, has been discovered. Reported in the journal Nature...

An event from the first xenon-xenon collision at the Large Hadron Collider at 5.44 TeV registered by ALICE; a colored track (blue) corresponds to the trajectory of a charged particle produced in a single collision. Image credit: ALICE Collaboration.

Universe’s Beginning was Fluid, Physicists Say

Oct 17, 2018 by News Staff

Physicists from the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) Collaboration at CERN have gained new insights into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma,...

This scanning electron micrograph shows macrophages infected with Bacillus anthracis (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

New Nanoparticle-Based Vaccine Protects against Anthrax and Plague

Oct 17, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A research team in the United States has developed a nanoparticle-based dual vaccine against Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis — pathogens that...

Fluorescence optical microscopy image showing emulsion droplets consisting of caged multi-compartmentalized spheroids containing a closely packed mixture of proteinosomes dispersed in oil. Scale bar - 100 μm. Image credit: Gobbo et al, doi: 10.1038/s41563-018-0183-5.

Researchers Develop Artificial Prototissue Capable of Beating

Oct 16, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the University of Bristol, UK, has developed a synthetic prototissue that is capable of synchronized beating. The team’s work,...

An artist’s impression of four gas giants in orbit around CI Tau. Image credit: University of Cambridge.

Astronomers Discover Young Planetary System with Four Gas Giants

Oct 16, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a 2-million-year-old planetary system containing at least four...

Life restoration of Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis. Image credit: Brian Engh, www.dontmesswithdinosaurs.com.

New Fossils of Ground Sloth-Like Dinosaur Could Help Reveal Why Sauropods Got So Big

Oct 16, 2018 by News Staff

Sauropods are a group of plant-eating dinosaurs which exceeded all other terrestrial vertebrates in body size. A new, in-depth anatomical description of...

Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS). Image credit: Damian Peach, www.damianpeach.com / Jose J. Chambo, www.cometografia.es.

Astronomers Spot Rare Blue Comet: C/2016 R2

Oct 16, 2018 by Sergio Prostak

C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS), a visitor from the Solar System’s distant Oort Cloud, sports a very complex tail dominated by blue light and is unusually rich...

Color-changing contact lenses could help doctors determine whether drugs are being delivered to the intended treatment site. Image credit: American Chemical Society.

Researchers Develop Contact Lenses that Change Color as Drugs Released

Oct 16, 2018 by News Staff

A team of researchers in China has developed drug-delivering contact lenses that could self-report the drug release process by color change. The team’s...

Gas glows brightly in this computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Computer Simulation Sheds Light on Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

Oct 15, 2018 by News Staff

For the first time, a new computer simulation that incorporates the physical effects of Einstein’s general theory of relativity shows that gas in supermassive...

Chimpanzees share food with their friends. Image credit: Liran Samuni, Tai Chimpanzee Project.

Study: Chimps Share Food with Friends

Oct 15, 2018 by News Staff

Why share when access to benefits is uncertain is crucial to our understanding of the evolution of cooperation in human societies. In a study published...

SDSS J0952+3434’s gravity magnifies and distorts a very distant galaxy, which is approximately 11 billion light-years away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Finds Strong-Lensing Galaxy Cluster

Oct 15, 2018 by News Staff

A stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by SDSS J0952+3434, a very massive group...

Lavender Genome Sequenced

Oct 15, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from Brock University and the University of British Columbia, Canada, has sequenced the genome of the English lavender (Lavandula...

Under a high magnification of 12,960x, this SEM image revealed some of the morphologic details displayed by a number of joined, Gram-negative, rod-shaped, Escherichia coli bacteria. Image credit: Janice Haney Carr, CDC.

New Study Reveals Link between Gut Microbiota and Multiple Sclerosis

Oct 15, 2018 by News Staff

Multiple sclerosis is an immune-mediated autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that develops in genetically susceptible individuals and requires...

The faint supernova iPTF14gqr appeared in the outskirts of IV Zw 155, a spiral galaxy located 920 million light years away from us. Image credit: SDSS / Caltech / Keck.

Ultra-Stripped Supernova Produces Neutron Star Binary

Oct 12, 2018 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Caltech’s Kishalay De has discovered the first recorded ‘ultra-stripped’ supernova — a faint type of supernova...

An artist’s impression of MASCOT during landing. Image credit: DLR.

Asteroid Lander MASCOT Completes Exploration of Ryugu

Oct 12, 2018 by News Staff

The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT), a lander carried by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, successfully completed its historic exploration of the...

Ganymede, larger than even Mercury and Pluto, has an icy surface speckled with bright young craters overlying a mixture of older, darker, more cratered terrain laced with grooves and ridges; the large circular feature on the upper right, called Galileo Regio, is an ancient region of unknown origin; Ganymede is thought to have an ocean layer that contains more water than Earth and might contain life; like Earth’s Moon, Ganymede keeps the same face towards its central planet, in this case Jupiter; this image was taken about 20 years ago by NASA’s Galileo probe, which ended its mission by diving into Jupiter’s atmosphere in 2003; currently, NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbits Jupiter and is studying the giant planet’s internal structure, among many other attributes. Image credit: NASA / JPL / Galileo probe.

Planetary Researchers Find Evidence of Ancient Strike-Slip Tectonics on Ganymede

Oct 12, 2018 by News Staff

A new study, published in the journal Icarus, reveals Ganymede — the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter and in the Solar System — appears...