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Horses produce more snorts in favorable situations. Image credit: Rihaij.

Horses Snort When They’re Happy, Study Says

Jul 12, 2018 by News Staff

Snorts — non-vocal signals produced by the air expiration through the nostrils — are associated with more positive contexts and states in horses,...

The 2.12-million-year-old stone artifact at the Shangchen site, China. Image credit: Zhaoyu Zhu.

2.1-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Unearthed in China

Jul 12, 2018 by News Staff

Archaeologists working in the southern Chinese Loess Plateau have unearthed stone tools crafted at least 2.1 million years ago by early humans. The discovery,...

Microscopic image of senescence on mouse embryonic fibroblast cells; blue-green areas indicate the expression of senescence-associated beta-galactosidase. Image credit: Y. Tambe / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Senolytic Drugs Increase Lifespan, Improve Physical Function in Aging Mice

Jul 12, 2018 by News Staff

Senescent cells increase in many tissues with aging and are often associated with inflammation, tissue damage, and age-related diseases. Senolytics are...

This image from the HAWK-I/GRAAL system on ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the super star cluster RCW 38. Image credit: K. Muzic / ESO.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Takes Closer Look at RCW 38

Jul 11, 2018 by Natali Anderson

The High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has taken the most detailed infrared image so far of a...

Giant Dinosaurs Appeared at Least 25 Million Years Earlier than Previously Thought

Jul 11, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Argentinian paleontologists has rewritten the paleontology textbooks by finding that giant, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs known as sauropods...

This artist’s impression shows Ross 128b, with the red dwarf star Ross 128 in the background. This system is located in the constellation of Virgo, about 11 light-years away. Ross 128b is 20 times closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun, and takes just 9.9 days to circle it. The planet’s equilibrium temperature is estimated to be 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius). Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Exoplanet Ross 128b Likely Has Temperate Climate: Study

Jul 11, 2018 by News Staff

Understanding which chemical elements are present in a star in what abundances can help astronomers estimate the makeup of planets that orbit them, which...

Perspective view of Pluto’s highest mountains, Tenzing Montes, along the western margins of Sputnik Planitia. Image credit: Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Global Mosaic and Topographic Maps of Pluto and Charon Released

Jul 11, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons team has released the first official global mosaic and topographic maps of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. Perspective...

Jimenez et al describe the use of adeno-associated viral vectors to achieve long-term production of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) to treat obesity and insulin resistance. Image credit: Jimenez et al, doi: 10.15252/emmm.201708791.

Gene Therapy Treats Insulin Resistance and Obesity in Mice

Jul 11, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, CIBERDEM and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre has demonstrated that a single...

Sulaiman et al found a powerful interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and Enceladus. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Sounds of Saturn: Evidence of Communication between Saturn, Its Rings and Enceladus via Plasma Waves

Jul 10, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s high-inclination Grand Finale orbits offered an unprecedented new view of Saturn and its environment. New research from...

Biogeochemist Dr. Janet Hope holds an ampoule with pink colored porphyrins. Image credit: Australian National University.

Bright Pink is Oldest Color in Geological Record

Jul 10, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from Australia, Japan, the United States and Belgium has successfully extracted bright pink biological pigments from...

Nitrogen is most-commonly bonded with itself in diatomic N2 molecules; a new study confirms that it becomes a metallic fluid when subjected to the extreme pressure and temperature conditions found deep inside the Earth and other planets. Image credit: Alexander Goncharov.

Extreme Pressures and Temperatures Turn Nitrogen Metallic

Jul 10, 2018 by News Staff

New research indicates that nitrogen, one of the most-common elements in the Universe and the dominant gas in the atmosphere of Earth, becomes a metallic...

An artist’s conception of PSO J352.4034-15.3373, with disk of material orbiting the black hole and jet of fast-moving particles ejected into space. Image credit: Robin Dienel / Carnegie Institution for Science.

Radio-Bright Quasar May Provide Clues about Physical Processes in Early Universe’s Galaxies

Jul 10, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using NSF’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found a quasar with the brightest radio emission ever observed in the early Universe. An...

An European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) with an insect. Image credit: Antonios Tsaknakis / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Insect-Eating Birds Consume 400-500 Million Metric Tons of Prey Annually

Jul 10, 2018 by News Staff

World’s insectivorous birds eat 400 to 500 million metric tons of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other arthropods per...

This illustration depicts JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft at the asteroid Ryugu. Image credit: German Aerospace Center / CC-BY 3.0.

JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Ryugu

Jul 9, 2018 by News Staff

After a journey of 42 months and 2 billion miles (3.2 billion km), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft finally reached its intended...

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

New World’s First Dogs Came from Siberia: Study

Jul 9, 2018 by News Staff

According to a study published in the journal Science, the earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves; instead, they form...

This Hubble image shows the irregular galaxy UGC 12682. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Snaps Stunning Irregular Galaxy Image

Jul 9, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a little known galaxy called UGC 12682. This Hubble image shows the irregular galaxy UGC 12682....

Clistopyga crassicaudata. Image credit: University of Turku.

New Species of Parasitoid Wasp Has Extremely Large Stinger

Jul 9, 2018 by News Staff

A new wasp species with a fierce weapon — dubbed Clistopyga crassicaudata — has been discovered in the western Amazonia. Clistopyga crassicaudata....

The ‘mosaic’ vaccine candidate protected against infection with an HIV-like virus in rhesus macaques.

Experimental Vaccine Has Potential against Wide Variety of HIV Strains

Jul 9, 2018 by News Staff

An experimental ‘mosaic’ vaccine against a wide variety of HIV strains is well-tolerated and generated comparable and robust immune responses in healthy...

Juno Images Show Unusual ‘Footprint’ of Io and Ganymede on Jupiter’s Aurorae

Jul 6, 2018 by News Staff

High-resolution infrared images from the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) on NASA’s Juno spacecraft show that, rather than casting one ‘shadow’...