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Triassic Reptile from Tanzania Finally Gets Scientific Name: Mandasuchus tanyauchen

A paleoartist’s reconstruction of Mandasuchus tanyauchen. Image credit: Mark Witton / Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.
Apr 20, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum, London, the University of Birmingham and Virginia Tech has formally given an ancient carnivorous reptile a name, over several decades since its fossils were found in Tanzania. The formal species description of Mandasuchus tanyauchen is published in a special memoir of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. A paleoartist’s reconstruction of Mandasuchus tanyauchen. Image credit:...

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Spectacular Lagoon Nebula Glows in Hubble’s 28th Birthday Photos

Apr 20, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by a space shuttle on April 24, 1990. It was the first space telescope of its kind, and has...

Opioid medication and medication combinations are not among the most effective or long lasting of the options available for relief of acute dental pain. Image credit: Wonderlane / Alan Carr / CC BY 2.0.

Paracetamol and Ibuprofen More Effective than Opioids in Treating Acute Dental Pain, Review Says

Apr 20, 2018 by News Staff

According to a review of more than 460 previous studies, ibuprofen and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs alone or in combination with paracetamol...

NGC 6240. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / STScI-ESA.

Binary Supermassive Black Hole Stops Star Formation in NGC 6240

Apr 19, 2018 by News Staff

NGC 6240 is a pair of merging galaxies approximately 400 million light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It spans 300,000 light-years and has...

Zeng et al detected signatures of natural selection in the genetic architecture of 23 complex traits.

Study: Natural Selection Still at Work in Humans

Apr 19, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from Australia, the Netherlands, Estonia and the United States has detected significant signatures of natural selection...

The Almahata Sitta meteorite. Image credit: Peter Jenniskens.

Diamond-Bearing ‘Almahata Sitta’ Meteorites Came from Long-Lost Protoplanet

Apr 19, 2018 by News Staff

The Almahata Sitta meteorites — diamond-bearing space rock fragments that rained down on the Nubian Desert in Sudan in 2008 — are remnants...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Heads for Final Science Orbit after Successful Launch

Apr 19, 2018 by News Staff

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was delivered to space Wednesday, April 18, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from...

Hysi et al identified 123 autosomal and one X-chromosome loci significantly associated with hair color. Image credit: Kristyna Matlachova.

Scientists Identify 124 New Genes that Determine Hair Color

Apr 18, 2018 by News Staff

Researchers have discovered 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair color variation. The findings were published online this week in...

Electron microscope image of enzyme degrading PET plastic. Image credit: Dennis Schroeder / U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Researchers Create Plastic-Degrading Enzyme

Apr 18, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from the United States, UK and Brazil has engineered an enzyme which can digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET),...

The lesser superb bird-of-paradise (Lophorina minor). Image credit: William Matthew Hart.

Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise Confirmed as New Species

Apr 18, 2018 by News Staff

One of New Guinea’s dancing birds-of-paradise — the Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise (Lophorina niedda) — was finally confirmed to be an...

The wavelength of emitted light grows, that is, the energy decreases, along the gold nanorod array; a Bose–Einstein condensate forms when an energy minimum of the lattice is reached. Image credit: Tommi Hakala & Antti Paraoanu, Aalto University.

Physicists Create Bose-Einstein Condensate of ‘Surface Plasmon Polaritons’

Apr 18, 2018 by News Staff

A team of physicists at Aalto University in Finland has successfully created a Bose-Einstein condensate of light coupled with metal (gold) electrons, so-called...

McFrederick et al isolated three previously unknown bacterial species from wild bees and flowers. Image credit: Gail Hampshire / CC BY 2.0.

Symbiotic Lactobacillus Bacteria May Help Wild Bees Nourish Their Offspring

Apr 18, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has identified three new species of bacteria — Lactobacillus micheneri, L....

If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to human era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today? Image credit: Michael Osadciw, University of Rochester.

Silurian Hypothesis: Were There Industrial Civilizations on Earth before Humans?

Apr 17, 2018 by News Staff

How do we really know there weren’t previous civilizations on our planet that rose and fell long before humans appeared? That’s the question posed...

Left: this image shows fibrotic heart cells from a patient who had heart failure; the cells have an elaborate fibronectin matrix (shown in red) which causes fibrosis and heart damage. Right: in this image, human heart cells treated with the novel therapeutic peptide exhibit dramatically reduced fibrosis; the experimental treatment prevented the human heart cells from failing and restored their function. Image credit: Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute.

Inhibiting Specific Protein Might Prevent Heart Failure

Apr 17, 2018 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute used an experimental targeted molecular therapy to block a matrix-forming protein,...

A life-scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over: a large rauisuchian lurks in the background, while two species of dinosaurs stand in the foreground, and some rhynchosaurs sit on the logs to the left; based on data from the Ischigualasto Formation in Argentina. Image credit: Davide Bonadonna.

Mid-Carnian Mass Extinction Paved Way for Dinosaur Expansion

Apr 17, 2018 by News Staff

Paleontologists believe that all non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out when a giant asteroid or comet collided with Earth some 65 million years ago, resulting...

Current guidelines say that, if necessary, paracetamol should be used at the lowest possible dose for the shortest possible time; ibuprofen should be avoided during pregnancy. Image credit: Steve Buissinne.

Painkillers in Pregnancy May Harm Baby’s Future Fertility: Study

Apr 17, 2018 by News Staff

According to a new study, published in the April edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, taking painkillers such as paracetamol (acetaminophen)...

The researchers use powerful X-rays to see inside a gas turbine combustor during ignition. Image credit: David McNally.

Scientists Conduct First-Ever Combustion Experiment with X-Rays

Apr 17, 2018 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made an historic first with their experiment...

Male Costa’s hummingbirds (Calypte costae), like the one shown here, court females using a high-speed dive in which they sing with their tail feather. Image credit: Alan D. Wilson / CC BY-SA 2.5.

Male Costa’s Hummingbirds ‘Sing’ with Their Tail Feathers

Apr 16, 2018 by News Staff

The Costa’s hummingbird (Calypte costae) is a small species of hummingbird endemic to the far west region of the United States and Mexico. During breeding...

Tratayenia rosalesi crosses a stream in what is now Patagonia, Argentina roughly 85 million years ago. Image credit: Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

New Carnivorous Dinosaur Unveiled: Tratayenia rosalesi

Apr 16, 2018 by News Staff

A partial skeleton of a megaraptorid dinosaur unearthed over a decade ago in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina, has been recognized as belonging to a new...

Night owls have 10% higher risk of dying than morning counterparts. Image credit: Sasin Tipchai.

Study: Night Owls Have Higher Risk of Mortality

Apr 16, 2018 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Chronobiology International, ‘night owls’ have a 10% higher risk of dying than ‘larks.’ Night...

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