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Free-Floating Exoplanet Has Extremely Strong Magnetic Field

Artist’s conception of SIMP01365, an object with 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter, but a magnetic field 200 times more powerful than Jupiter’s. Image credit: Chuck Carter, Caltech / NRAO / AUI / NSF.
Aug 6, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have detected a ‘rogue’ planetary-mass object with a surprisingly powerful magnetic field. Artist’s conception of SIMP01365, an object with 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter, but a magnetic field 200 times more powerful than Jupiter’s. Image credit: Chuck Carter, Caltech / NRAO / AUI / NSF. The object, called SIMP J01365663+0933473 (SIMP0136 for short), has roughly 12.7 times the mass...

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Female soccer players exhibit more extensive changes to brain tissue after repetitive ‘heading’ of the soccer ball. Image credit: Keith Johnston.

Study: Soccer Headers Riskier for Female Players

Aug 6, 2018 by News Staff

According to new research published in the journal Radiology, women’s brains are more vulnerable than men’s to injury from repeated soccer heading....

Reconstruction of Homo floresiensis. Image credit: Kinez Riza / Atelier Elisabeth Daynes, Sangiran Museum.

Flores Pygmies Show No Genetic Link to Mysterious Homo floresiensis

Aug 3, 2018 by News Staff

Modern pygmies living in a village near the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, where fossils of the dwarfed human species Homo floresiensis...

Pulmonary ionocytes (orange) extend through neighboring epithelial cells in the upper respiratory tract of the mouse, to the surface of the epithelial lining; cell nuclei in cyan. Image credit: Montoro et al, doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0393-7.

Scientists Discover New Type of Lung Cell

Aug 3, 2018 by News Staff

Two independent teams of scientists have identified a rare cell type in airway tissue — previously uncharacterized in the literature — that...

Due to a phenomenon called categorical perception, zebra finches partition the range of hues from red to orange into two discrete categories. Image credit: Ryan Huang, TerraCommunications LLC.

Zebra Finches Perceive Color Like Humans

Aug 3, 2018 by News Staff

The rainbow of visible colors varies over a continuous range of wavelengths, but small songbirds called zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) break it into...

Hayabusa-2 image of the asteroid Ryugu as seen from a distance of 3.7 miles. A particularly large crater is visible near the center of the image. Image credit: JAXA / University of Tokyo / Kochi University / Rikkyo University / Nagoya University / Chiba Institute of Technology / Meiji University / University of Aizu / AIST.

JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 Spacecraft Snaps Close-Up Photo of Asteroid Ryugu

Aug 3, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed a stunning close-up shot of the asteroid Ryugu captured by its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft. Hayabusa-2...

This gas-sensing capsule is 3,000 times more accurate than current technology used to diagnose many gut disorders. Image credit: RMIT University.

Revolutionary Gas-Sensing Capsule Provides Real Time Measurement of Gut Gases, Beats Breath Test Diagnosis

Aug 3, 2018 by News Staff

A swallowable gas-sensing capsule (about the size of a vitamin pill) developed by RMIT University, in collaboration with Monash University and Atmo Bioscience,...

Pluto in true color. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute / Alex Parker.

True Colors of Pluto and Its Largest Moon Charon

Aug 2, 2018 by News Staff

Marking the anniversary of New Horizons’ historic flight through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015, NASA released high-resolution natural-color images...

Researchers Identify Exoplanets with Optimal Chemical Conditions for Life’s Origin

Aug 2, 2018 by News Staff

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK, have identified a group of exoplanets where the same chemical...

This study suggests caffeine has weak, transient effects on energy intake and doesn’t support it as an effective appetite suppressant. Image credit: Rita E.

Caffeine Doesn’t Suppress Your Appetite: Study

Aug 2, 2018 by News Staff

A new study led by SUNY University at Buffalo researcher Leah Panek-Shirley found that after drinking a small amount of caffeine, participants consumed...

An artist’s impression of the collision of two stars, like the ones that formed CK Vulpeculae. The inset illustrates the inner structure of one red giant before the merger. A thin layer of 26Al (brown) surrounds a helium core. An extended convective envelope (not to scale), which forms the outermost layer of the star, can mix material from inside the star to the surface, but it never reaches deep enough to dredge 26Al up to the surface. Only a collision with another star can disperse 26Al. Image credit: NRAO / AUI / NSF / S. Dagnello.

Radioactive Molecule Found in Stellar Merger Remnant

Aug 2, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) have made the first definitive...

The mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) trapped among colonies of the orange coral (Astroides calycularis). Image credit: Musco et al, doi: 10.1002/ecy.2413.

Corals Cooperate to Hunt Stinging Jellyfish

Aug 1, 2018 by News Staff

Marine biologists have shown for the first time that corals can cooperate to catch and eat stinging jellyfish which are swept against the walls by sea...

Exoplanet Hunters Create Reference Catalog of Solar System Bodies’ Light-Fingerprints

Aug 1, 2018 by News Staff

A team of astronomers at Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University, has produced a reference catalog of spectra and geometric albedos for 19 objects that...

Antarctica. Image credit: Robyn M.

Carbon Dioxide ‘Leak’ in Southern Ocean May Have Warmed Earth for 11,000 Years

Aug 1, 2018 by News Staff

The Earth’s oceans lock away atmospheric carbon dioxide, but a ‘leak’ in the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, brings the greenhouse gas...

An artist’s impression of a potentially habitable exoplanet. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Planets Don’t Need Plate Tectonics to Be Habitable

Aug 1, 2018 by News Staff

There may be more habitable exoplanets than we previously thought, according to Pennsylvania State University researchers Bradford Foley and Andrew Smye,...

This transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image captured some of the ultrastructural details exhibited by the influenza A (H7N9) virus. Image credit: Cynthia S. Goldsmith & Thomas Rowe, CDC.

Novel Nanoparticle Vaccine Protects against Influenza A Virus in Animal Study

Aug 1, 2018 by News Staff

Dr. Bao-Zhong Wang of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University and colleagues have developed an experimental nanoparticle vaccine...

An artist’s impression of a terraformed Mars. Image credit: Daein Ballard / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mars Terraforming is Not Possible Using Currently Available Technology, Researchers Say

Jul 31, 2018 by News Staff

On Mars, the atmospheric pressure is around 0.6% of Earth’s. Any liquid water on the surface would very quickly evaporate or freeze. One of the challenges...

Illustration of the early solar disk, with an inset image of a blue crystal of hibonite, one of the first minerals to form in the Solar System. Image credit: Field Museum / University of Chicago / NASA / ESA / E. Field, STScl.

Meteorite Researchers Find Strong Evidence Early Sun Was Highly Active

Jul 31, 2018 by News Staff

By examining microscopic ice-blue crystals of mineral hibonite trapped inside a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, an international team of scientists was...

Team Zopherus of Rogers is the first-place winner in NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, Phase 3: Level 1 competition. Image credit: NASA.

NASA Awards Top Five Design Finalists in 3D Printed Martian Habitat Challenge

Jul 31, 2018 by News Staff

Future missions to Mars and beyond will require innovative options to shelter explorers. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, a Centennial Challenges...

This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy Messier 83. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA / W. Blair, STScI & JHU / Carnegie Institution of Washington / Las Campanas Observatory / NOAO.

Astronomers Find New Place to Look for Gravitational Waves: Outskirts of Spiral Galaxies

Jul 31, 2018 by News Staff

Conditions favorable for gravitational wave-emitting mergers of massive black holes exist in the outer gas disks of big spiral galaxies, according to a...

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